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A Personal Adventure in Stereochemistry Local Order and Defects: Models for Room-Temperature Superconductivity

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Disorder and Order in the Solid State

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The relationship between electronic conduction and stereochemical local bonding arrangements is illustrated by four examples: the unusual high conductance ON-state of the Ovonic Threshold Switch resulting from nonequilibrium excitation processes the high conductivity connected with the oxidation states of the Ovitron, the chemical modification of electronic transport in amorphous semiconductors and insulators, and the high temperature copper oxide ceramic superconductors. We discuss the effect of fluorination on raising the superconducting transition temperature to Tc=155K or higher, on eliminating oxygen diffusion and on orienting the crystallites in the YBaCuO superconductors.

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Ovshinsky, S.R. (1988). A Personal Adventure in Stereochemistry Local Order and Defects: Models for Room-Temperature Superconductivity. In: Pryor, R.W., Schwartz, B.B., Ovshinsky, S.R. (eds) Disorder and Order in the Solid State. Institute of Amorphous Studies Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1027-3_13

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