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The electrical conductivity is measured experimentally and the parameters of the superconducting transition are determined in a regular spatial network of multiply connected submicron-sized indium grains embedded in voids of an ordered opal dielectric matrix. The In-opal nanocomposite was prepared by pressure injection of the molten metal into voids of opal samples. Arrays of In grains of different sizes were produced by properly varying the characteristic geometric sizes of the opal voids, which offered the possibility of observing quantitative and qualitative changes in the temperature dependence of electrical resistance and studying the size effects on the critical temperature and critical magnetic field in the In-opal nanocomposites. It was found that, as the coherence length becomes comparable to the size of the superconducting grains, the parameters of the superconducting transition in the nanocomposite increase sharply.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 47, No. 11, 2005, pp. 1927–1936.
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Shamshur, D.V., Chernyaev, A.V., Fokin, A.V. et al. Electrical conductivity and superconductivity of ordered indium-opal nanocomposites. Phys. Solid State 47, 2005–2014 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.2131136
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