Effect of Lattice Disorder on the Superconducting Transition Temperature.

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Garland ◽  
K. H. Bennemann ◽  
F. M. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Superconducting Transition Temperature ◽  
Superconducting Transition ◽  
Lattice Disorder

scholarly journals Enhancing Superconductivity of the Nonmagnetic Quasiskutterudites by Atomic Disorder

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 5830
Author(s):  
Andrzej Ślebarski ◽  
Maciej M. Maśka
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Superconducting Transition Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Superconducting Phase ◽  
Length Scale ◽  
Superconducting Transition ◽  
Atomic Disorder ◽  
Strong Inhomogeneity ◽  
Related Compounds

We investigated the effect of enhancement of superconducting transition temperature Tc by nonmagnetic atom disorder in the series of filled skutterudite-related compounds (La3M4Sn13, Ca3Rh4Sn13, Y5Rh6Sn18, Lu5Rh6Sn18; M= Co, Ru, Rh), where the atomic disorder is generated by various defects or doping. We have shown that the disorder on the coherence length scale ξ in these nonmagnetic quasiskutterudite superconductors additionally generates a non-homogeneous, high-temperature superconducting phase with Tc⋆>Tc (dilute disorder scenario), while the strong fluctuations of stoichiometry due to increasing doping can rapidly increase the superconducting transition temperature of the sample even to the value of Tc⋆∼2Tc (dense disorder leading to strong inhomogeneity). This phenomenon seems to be characteristic of high-temperature superconductors and superconducting heavy fermions, and recently have received renewed attention. We experimentally documented the stronger lattice stiffening of the inhomogeneous superconducting phase Tc⋆ in respect to the bulk Tc one and proposed a model that explains the Tc⋆>Tc behavior in the series of nonmagnetic skutterudite-related compounds.

Electron Irradiation of YBa2Cu3O7 at low Temperatures

1987 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Stritzker ◽  
W. Zander ◽  
F. Dworschak ◽  
U. Poppe ◽  
K. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Transition Temperature ◽  
Electron Irradiation ◽  
Normal State ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Superconducting Transition Temperature ◽  
Superconducting Transition ◽  
Radiation Induced ◽  
State Resistance ◽  
Normal State Resistance

ABSTRACTBulk samples of YBa2Cu3O7−x have been homogenously irradiated with 3 MeV electrons at temperatures below 20 K. Whereas the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, drops dramatically with increasing dose the width of the transition remains unchanged (Δ Tc ≤ 1.5 K). The normal state resistance at 100 K increases substantially during the electron irradiation. Several irreproducible experiments can be interpreted with a radiation induced, unstable increase of Tc.

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