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Control of Oxygen Stoichiometry and Creation of Nuclear Tracks, Two Important Issues for Optimization of Superconductivity in Layered Copper Oxides

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In this paper we review on two important issues which have been used to optimize the superconducting properties of high Tc copper oxides : i) the control of oxygen content by annealing HTSC’s at relevant temperatures and oxygen pressures which show that a maximal critical temperature may be reached for an optimum hole concentration; ii) the creation of GeV-heavy ion latent tracks, tubes of amorphized material which can act as efficient pinning centers for flux lines leading to large enhancement of Jc’s and strong shifts of the irreversibility line.

The discovery of superconductivity at 40K in LaBaCuO [1] and the numerous studies performed these last five years on high Tc superconductive copper oxides have definitely proved that oxygen is a noble element for superconductivity. Consequently, the oxygen content and distribution are two important factors which are susceptible to influence dramatically the superconducting properties of these materials, and can play a predominant role in the optimization of their critical temperature. A second important issue deals with the rather great reversibility of superconductivity especially for bismuth cuprates which will require the creation of particular extended defects in order to pin the vortices. Among the different methods to induce pinning, the creation of nuclear tracks by heavy ion irradiation appears as a very promising route. We present here recent studies of oxygen non stoichiometry and of irradiation-induced defects in layered cuprates in connection with their superconducting properties

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Raveau, B. et al. (1992). Control of Oxygen Stoichiometry and Creation of Nuclear Tracks, Two Important Issues for Optimization of Superconductivity in Layered Copper Oxides. In: Kossowsky, R., Raveau, B., Wohlleben, D., Patapis, S.K. (eds) Physics and Materials Science of High Temperature Superconductors, II. NATO ASI Series, vol 209. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2462-1_13

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