(1) Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan;(2) Department of Electronic Engineering, Feng Chia Univ., Taichung, 407, Taiwan;(3) Department of Chemistry, Tamkang University, Tamsui, 251, Taiwan
Abstract:
Magnetic measurement and powder X-ray Rietveld analysis are performed on oxygenated Pr1.5Ba1.5Cu3O7.2cuprate. This tetragonal compound with lattice parameters a = 0.38916 nm and c = 1.16177 nm is found to form the TlBa2CaCu2O71212-type structure when written as Cu[Ba1.5Pr0.5]PrCu2O7.2. Low temperature magnetic data indicate that anomalous Pr order temperature TN(Pr) decreases from 18 K for orthorhombic PrBa2Cu3O6.9to 10.5 K for Pr1.5Ba1.5Cu3O7.2. The increasing Pr-O bond length with decreasing TNindicates that Pr ordering is closely correlated with the wave function overlap between Pr-4f orbital and O-2porbital in the CuO2bi-layers.