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Structural features that optimize high temperature superconductivity

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Recent Developments in High Temperature Superconductivity

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 475))

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Studies of a large number of compounds have provided a consistent picture of what structural features give rise to the highest Tc’s in copper-oxide superconductors. For example, various defects can be introduced into the blocking layer to provide the optimum carrier concentration, but defects that form in or adjacent to the CuO2 layers will lower Tc and eventually destroy superconductivity. After these requirements are satisfied, the highest Tc’s are observed for compounds (such as the HgBa2Can−1CunO2n+2+x family) that have flat and square CuO2 planes and long apical Cu−O bonds. This conclusion is confirmed by the study of materials in which the flatness of the CuO2 plane can be varied in a systematic way. In more recent work, attention has focused on how the structure can be modified, for example, by chemical substitution, to improve flux pinning properties. Two strategies are being investigated: (1) Increasing the coupling of pancake vortices to form vortex lines by shortening or “metallizing” the blocking layer; and (2) the formation of defects that pin flux.

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  1. Materials Science Division and Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity, Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, Argonne, IL, USA

    J. D. Jorgensen, D. G. Hinks, O. Chmaissem, D. N. Argyriou & J. F. Mitchell

  2. Physics Department, Northern Illinois University, 60115, DeKalb, IL, USA

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Jorgensen, J.D., Hinks, D.G., Chmaissem, O., Argyriou, D.N., Mitchell, J.F., Dabrowski, B. (1996). Structural features that optimize high temperature superconductivity. In: Klamut, J., Veal, B.W., Dabrowski, B.M., Klamut, P.W. (eds) Recent Developments in High Temperature Superconductivity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 475. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0102015

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