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Open AccessThe onset of dissipation in high-temperature superconductors: magnetic hysteresis and field dependence
Recently, we showed that the self-field transport critical current, Ic(sf), of a superconducting wire can be defined in a more fundamental way than the conventional (and arbitrary) electric field criterion, Ec = ...
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Open AccessCurrent distribution across type II superconducting films: a new vortex-free critical state
The current distribution across the thickness of a current-carrying rectangular film in the Meissner state was established long ago by the London brothers. The distribution across the width is more complicated...
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Open AccessUniversal scaling of the self-field critical current in superconductors: from sub-nanometre to millimetre size
Universal scaling behaviour in superconductors has significantly elucidated fluctuation and phase transition phenomena in these materials. However, universal behaviour for the most practical property, the crit...
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Open AccessUniversal self-field critical current for thin-film superconductors
For any practical superconductor the magnitude of the critical current density, Jc, is crucially important. It sets the upper limit for current in the conductor. Usually Jc falls rapidly with increasing external ...
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Chapter
Oxygen in High-Tc Cuprate Superconductors
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Two Synthetic Routes to The Formation of Tungsten Oxide Hybrid Compounds
The syntheses of tungsten oxide-organic amine hybrids via homogenous and heterogeneous routes were explored and compared. In the former case, tungstic acid (H2WO4) and an appropriate amine were dissolved in ammon...
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Pseudogap and Quantum-Transition Phenomenology in HTS Cuprates
The low-energy excitation spectrum of HTS cuprates is examined in the light of thermodynamic, transport, quasiparticle and spin properties. Changes in the thermodynamic spectrum associated with the normal-stat...
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Critical Behavior in the Low-Energy Spin Fluctuations in High-T c Superconductors
We study the spin fluctuations of pure and Zn-substituted La2 − x Sr x CuO4 using the muon spin relaxation technique. Superconductivity is found to coexist with low-frequency spi...
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Magneto-Transport Properties of the Rutheno-Cuprate RuSr2GdCu2O8
RuSr 2 GdCu 2 O 8 (Ru-1212) is a triple perovskite containing both CuO 2 ...
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Systematics and Optimisation of Hole Do** in Bi-2223
We report systematic changes in thermopower, T c , Raman modes and magnetic irreversibility H irr as a function of carrier hole con...
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Thermodynamic, transport and magnetic properties of the ferromagnetic superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8 and related compounds
The transport, magnetic and thermodynamic properties of RuSr 2 GdCu 2 O 8 and related compounds are...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Low Temperature Penetration Depth Measurements in High-T c Superconductors
We review our experimental results of the low temperature (T) penetration depth of high-T c superconductors. In clean high-T c materials the in-plane penetration depth, λ ...
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μSR measurement of the superconducting condensate reduction induced by Zn in underdoped, optimally doped and overdoped YBCO
We present an extensive study on the parallel reduction of Tc and the condensate density in ceramic YBCO samples, upon substitution of Cu by Zn. Strong evidence is collected in support of non magnetic pair breaki...
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A muon‐spin‐rotation study of the superconducting condensate density in high temperature superconductors
Muon‐spin‐rotation studies on a variety of polycrystalline cuprate high‐T_ c superconductors reveal a generic dependence of the superconducting transition temperature T_ c upon condensate density throughout th...
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A new approach to the design of high-Tc superconductors: Metallised interlayers
We show from muon spin relaxation (μSR) studies on mercury HTS superconductors that a 50-fold increase in irreversibility field obtained by partial substitution of Re for Hg is due to metallisation of the Hg/R...
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Electronic specific heat of overdoped Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ in a magnetic field
We have measured the magnetic field dependence of the electronic specific heat γel (=Cel/T) of polycrystalline Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ from 8 K to above Tc, for samples with Tc = 24 K to 72 K using a high resolution, differ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dimensionality Transition of the Vortex State in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
The second peak effect in the magnetisation of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ has been investigated for both under-, near optimally-, and over-doped single crystals. The size and position of the peak depend strongly on the dopi...
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Magnetic penetration depths of (BiPb)-2212 and (TlPb)-1212 — Universal correlations revisited
A systematic study of the dependence of the critical temperature on the superconducting carrier density, as measured byμ +SR, was carried out for a variety of cuprate oxides. We have shown that substitution of Pb...
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Electronic specific heat of Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ from 2 K to 300 K for 0≤δ≤0.1
Using a high-precision differential technique with a resolution of 1∶104, we have measured the heat capacity of Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ over a temperature range 2–300 K for 0≤δ≤0.1. Anomalies atT c ...
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Pair density and gaplessness in high-T c cuprates
The results ofμSR and heat capacity studies on high-T c superconducting cuprates, particularly in the overdoped regime, are presented, and it is shown that the pair density fal...