Most of the recently discovered superconductors, like all cuprates, MgB2, or NaxCoO2?nH2O, are uniaxial crystals with metallic ab planes orthogonal to an insulating, or sometimes poorly conducting, c axis. The reflectivity Rab(omega) provides, through the optical conductivity sigmaab(omega), valuable information on the low-energy electrodynamics of these intriguing materials. However, in the far infrared, Rab(omega) ~ or = 1 and a slight contamination from the c-axis response or an unsuitable choice of the extrapolation to omega=0 may lead to large errors on sigmaab(omega). These issues are quantitatively discussed here with particular regard to La2?xSrxCuO4+y, one of the most-studied high-Tc materials.
EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY IN THE FAR-INFRARED REFLECTIVITY OF UNIAXIAL CRYSTALS / Ortolani, Michele; Calvani, Paolo; Lupi, Stefano; Maselli, Paola; Fujita, M.; Yamada, K.. - In: JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. B, OPTICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0740-3224. - STAMPA. - 22:(2005), pp. 1994-2000. [10.1364/JOSAB.22.001994]
EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY IN THE FAR-INFRARED REFLECTIVITY OF UNIAXIAL CRYSTALS
ORTOLANI, MICHELE;CALVANI, Paolo;LUPI, Stefano;MASELLI, Paola;
2005
Abstract
Most of the recently discovered superconductors, like all cuprates, MgB2, or NaxCoO2?nH2O, are uniaxial crystals with metallic ab planes orthogonal to an insulating, or sometimes poorly conducting, c axis. The reflectivity Rab(omega) provides, through the optical conductivity sigmaab(omega), valuable information on the low-energy electrodynamics of these intriguing materials. However, in the far infrared, Rab(omega) ~ or = 1 and a slight contamination from the c-axis response or an unsuitable choice of the extrapolation to omega=0 may lead to large errors on sigmaab(omega). These issues are quantitatively discussed here with particular regard to La2?xSrxCuO4+y, one of the most-studied high-Tc materials.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
