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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 66, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.014518
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Precise structural information on the Mg1-xAlxB2 superconductors in the vicinity of xapproximate to0.5 is derived from high-resolution synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction measurements. We find that a hexagonal superstructure, accompanied by doubling of the c axis, ordering of Mg and Al in alternating layers, and a shift of the B layers towards Al by similar to0.12 Angstrom, is formed. The unusually large width of the (00 1/2) superlattice peak implies the presence of microstrain broadening, arising from anisotropic stacking of Al and Mg layers and/or structural modulations within the ab plane. The ordered phase survives only over a limited range of compositions away from the optimum x=0.5 doping level.
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