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Structural and electrical properties of YBa2-xSrxCU3Oy prepared under ambient oxygen pressure were systematically investigated for 0≤x≤2.0. Samples with high Sr contents, x≥1.7, showed samiconductive properties with an activation energy of ∼150 meV at high temperature, T≥80 K. At low temperatures, T≤80 K, activation energy dropped to ∼3.00 and ∼0.85 meV for x = 1.7-1.8 and x = 1.9-2.0, respectively. It is argued that YSr2Cu3Oy is likely to have a tetragonal structure and that the disorder introduced by Sr substitution affects electrical conduction, which involves charge hopping between the CuO chains at high Sr contents. © 1996 American Institute of Physics. |
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