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Interfacial effects and superconductivity in high-Tc materials

S. Vieira, P. Zhou, S. A. Solin, N. Garcia, M. Hortal, A. Aguilo

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.39.334 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

A series of quasihomogeneous superconducting powders of YBa2Cu3O7−x have been prepared by sieving and characterized by electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction. Quantitative size-dependent and temperature-dependent magnetic levitation and susceptibility measurements of random powders and of field-oriented (at T<Tc=92 K) small grains (<20 μm) confirm previously observed symmetry-breaking effects associated with the twin boundary planes and suggest that the bulk anisotropic superconductivity is measurably perturbed by interfacial effects. Current models of interfacial superconductivity in high-Tc materials are evaluated in light of these and other results and are found to be lacking.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
YBa2Cu3O7-x

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