High-T-c superconductors tailored on the nanometre-scale

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Mannhart, J
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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES | 1995年 / 353卷 / 1703期
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10.1098/rsta.1995.0107
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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High-T-c superconductors are characterized by an unusually small coherence length, which amounts to a few angstroms only. As the coherence length is the length scale in which a superconductor has to be structured to achieve Josephson junction behaviour, considerable effort has been devoted by many groups to modify high-T-c films in the nanometre scale. Because the high-T-c cuprates do not lend themselves for nanostructuring, new concepts have to be developed to achieve this goal. These developments will be discussed and an overview of the state of the art of the field will be presented with a special focus on the ultimate limitations of nanoscale structuring of superconductors.
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