R. Suryanarayanan et al., ENHANCEMENT OF T-C AND THE IRREVERSIBILITY LINE IN ARGON PRETREATED LNSRBACU(3)O(6+Z) (LN=ND,EU,SM), Physica. C, Superconductivity, 235, 1994, pp. 881-882
LnSrBaCuO (Ln=Nd,Eu,Sm) samples were prepared by oxygen annealing [O]
and by heating in argon followed by oxygen annealing [AO]. This treatm
ent resulted in an increase in T-c and in the irreversibility line. A
rearrangement of the oxygen atoms in the basal plane due to [AO] treat
ment may explain the data.