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Granular Aspects of High Tc Superconductivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Guy Deutscher
Guy Deutscher*
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305, USA
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Abstract

As Bednorz and Muller noted in their original publication reporting on the discovery of high temperature superconductivity, their oxides present many of the features of granular superconductors. This behavior was first primarily ascribed to poor connectivity of the grains in the bulk ceramic samples. but later studies have pointed out to more fundamental reasons for these similarities. We will discuss them after first reviewing the well established properties of low Tc granular superconductors.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 195: Symposium S – Physical Phenomena in Granular Materials , 1990 , 303
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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