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Materials Sciences and Applications, 2012, 3, 829-832 829 /10.4236/msa.2012.312120 Published Online December 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/msa) Effect for Inhomogeneity by Pb Substitution on (Bi Pb ) Sr Ca Y Cu O Single Crystals 1-y y 2 2 1-x x 2 8+δ S. Komaki, Y. Kourogi, T. Murano, A. Furushima, S. Maeda, Y. Sawada, B. Saya, Q. T. Meng, T. Tsuneoka, F. Ichikawa, K. Itoh Department of Physics, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. Email: ichikawa@kumamoto-u.ac.jp Received October 1 , 2012; revised October 30 , 2012; accepted November 28 , 2012 st th th ABSTRACT Inhomogeneity is one of the most important problems for the investigation of the superconductor-insulator transition. Y and Pb co-doped Bi Sr CaCu O8+δ (PbY-Bi2212) crystals were fabricated by the self-flax method in order to control 2 2 2 both carrier density and dimensionality. The Y-content of PbY-Bi2212 crystals was much wide distributed in the same crucible rather than that of only Y doping Bi2212 (Y-Bi2212) crystals. In order to clear the origin of inhomogeneity, crystals were characterized by wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (WDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). One can estimate the Y-content of cleavage samples from the c-axis lattice parameter obtained by XRD because mainly Y-con- tent affects to c-axis lattice constant for both Y-Bi2212 and PbY-Bi2212 crystals. It found that there are some samples with multi-phases and the ratio of samples with multi-phase for PbY-Bi2212 crystals is larger than that for Y-Bi2212 crystals. The linear relation between Y-content and Pb-content were also found from WDS. Large inhomogeneity of Y-content may be induced from Pb-content inhomogeneity. Transport properties are strongly dependent to Y-content. However they cannot be explained only from the macroscopic che