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Using the conventional phonon-exchange mechanism of superconductivity we have succeeded in reproducing the transition temperatureT c of a large number of newly discovered highT c superconductors by introducing a certain modification to the well-known BCS-formula forT c .
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Tripathy, D.N., Mishra, L.K. A new look at the highT c superconductors using BCS-theory. Bull. Mater. Sci. 14, 1019–1022 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02747470
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