Hi. Yoo et Sm. Lee, GENERATION AND MOBILITY OF ELECTRONIC CHARGE-CARRIERS IN Y1BA2CU3OX, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 77(12), 1994, pp. 3131-3136
The Hall effect and the conductivity of Y1Ba2Cu3Ox have been measured
together for quenched specimens at room temperature as functions of ox
ygen content (x) in the range of 6 < x < 7. It has been reconfirmed th
at a hole is generated per every oxygen atom incorporated in the ortho
rhombic phase (x > 6.5) and per every two oxygen atoms in the tetragon
al phase (x < 6.5). The exothermic enthalpy change for hole generation
is 2 times or more larger in the tetragonal than in the orthorhombic
phase. The mobility of the majority carrier holes has been found to va
ry discontinuously crossing the phase boundary (x similar or equal to
6.5), reflecting a first-order phase transition for these quenched spe
cimens. It is independent of oxygen content in each structure: 0.34 +/
- 0.03 cm(2)/(V(.)s) in the tetragonal phase and 0.51 +/- 0.06 cm(2)/(
V(.)s) in the orthorhombic phase.