M. Kall et al., OXYGEN PHONONS IN ORTHORHOMBIC AND TETRAGONAL TL2BA2CUO6 INVESTIGATEDBY RAMAN-SCATTERING, Physica. C, Superconductivity, 220(1-2), 1994, pp. 131-137
The phonon spectrum of the Tl2Ba2CuO6 compound has been investigated b
y Raman scattering for variations in the Tl and oxygen contents. We ob
serve large changes of the vibrational frequencies and lineshapes of t
he apical oxygen, O(2), and the oxygen in the double TlO layer, O(3),
for a Tl content which coincides with the orthorhombic-tetragonal phas
e transition. Oxygen annealed samples (T-c approximate to 20 K) exhibi
t slightly lower frequencies of the O(2) and O(3) modes than the as-si
ntered samples (T-c approximate to 70K).