GROWTH AND PROPERTIES OF SUPERCONDUCTING YBCO SINGLE-CRYSTALS

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LIANG, RX
DOSANJH, P
BONN, DA
BAAR, DJ
CAROLAN, JF
HARDY, WN
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[1] Department of Physics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
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PHYSICA C | 1992年 / 195卷 / 1-2期
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10.1016/0921-4534(92)90073-L
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Large, high quality YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) single crystals have been grown by a flux method and characterized by low field magnetization, a-b plane resistivity, microwave surface resistance and heat capacity measurements. The crystals obtained are nearly free standing after crystal growth and are easily harvested. They have dimensions of up to 5 mm along the a-(b-) axis and up to 1 mm along the c-axis. After oxidation, the crystals show a superconducting transition at T(c)=93.2 K with transition width, DELTA-T(c), of < 0.25 K as determined by low field magnetization, a-b plane resistivity and heat capacity data. The heat capacity jump DELTA-C(p) of the superconducting transition is 6.9 mJ/ (g K).
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