Grain boundaries in high-Tc superconductors:: insights and improvements

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作者
Mannhart, J [1 ]
Bielefeldt, H [1 ]
Goetz, B [1 ]
Hilgenkamp, H [1 ]
Schmehl, A [1 ]
Schneider, CW [1 ]
Schulz, RR [1 ]
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[1] Univ Augsburg, Inst Phys, Ctr Elect Correlat & Magnetism, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
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PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE B-PHYSICS OF CONDENSED MATTER STATISTICAL MECHANICS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES | 2000年 / 80卷 / 05期
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10.1080/01418630008221948
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The properties of grain boundaries play a decisive role in the understanding and design of numerous experiments, as well as for most applications of high-T-c superconductors. For basic reasons to be discussed, the physics of interfaces in high-T-c superconductors and in semiconductors are surprisingly closely related. As a consequence, the behaviour of interfaces in high-T-c superconductors is considerably richer and more exciting than in conventional metallic superconductors. Based on these considerations, we developed a model to describe the electronic behaviour of grain boundaries in high-T-c superconductors. Guided by this model, we were able to meet a long-standing challenge of high-T-c superconductivity and to increase the critical current densities of the grain boundaries by large factors.
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