ANISOTROPIC MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES OF BI2SR2CUO6+DELTA SINGLE-CRYSTAL

Abstract

Single crystals of Bi2Sr2CuO6+delta were synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction. The Bi(2201) sample remains not superconducting or magnetically ordered down to 5 K. With an applied magnetic field perpendicular or parallel to the c-axis, magnetic measurements yielded anisotropic magnetic susceptibilities chi(c)(H perpendicular-to c) and chi(ab)(H parallel-to c). Both can be fitted to the sum of a temperature-independent chi(0) and a Curie-Weiss term C/(T + theta(p)) in the temperature range between 5 and 300 K, with a common Curie constant C = 1.0 x 10(-2) cm3 K/mol and Curie-Weiss paramagnetic intercept theta(p) = + 1.1 K. Since the resulting Curie-Weiss term is the same for both directions, the overall anisotropy DELTA(chi) = chi(c) - chi(ab) = DELTA(chi-0) is also temperature independent. Its magnitude, 3.3 x 10(-5) cm3/mol, however, is lower than the corresponding values for Bi(2212) (2.3 x 10(-4) cm3/mol) and Bi(2223) (5.8 x 10(-4) cm3/mol).