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X-ray and electron diffraction study of single crystal Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox

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Using both x-ray and electron diffraction, we have studied the incommensurate modulation structure in single crystal Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox. Electron diffraction clearly indicates a small a∗-axis component of the modulation wave vector k, along with the more familiar b∗-axis component (0.004a∗ + 0.212b∗). This tilt of the k-vector breaks the mirror symmetry perpendicular to a- and b-axes as well as the twofold symmetry about a- and b-axes. The modulated structure thereby has only a mirror plane normal to the c-axis. Intense x-ray streaking along the c-axis at several satcllite reflections was considerably more pronounced than at the fundamental reflections, indicating a stacking disorder along the c-axis predominantly in the modulated structure.

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  1. Physics Department and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, 77204-5504, Texas, USA

    X. B. Kan, J. Kulik, P. C. Chow & S. C. Moss

  2. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Y. F. Yan, J. H. Wang & Z. X. Zhao

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Kan, X.B., Kulik, J., Chow, P.C. et al. X-ray and electron diffraction study of single crystal Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox. Journal of Materials Research 5, 731–736 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1990.0731

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