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Two Peak Effect in GMR: A Chemical Effect?
We show that the synthesis conditions have a dramatic influence on the resistivity behavior of calcium and sodium doped LaMnO3. Several samples prepared by lowtemperature techniques exhibit a double-peaked curve ...
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Phase Transition and Pattern of Self-Organized Microstructures in Presence of Mobile Impurities
A growth model starting from a surface and in presence of mobile nonreactive localized impurities has been studied for the statistical physics of the microstructure and the surface roughness through simulation...
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Studies of Crack Pattern in Two Dimensional Media as Resulting From Ion Beam like or Freezing Destruction
We have numerically studied various models for crack formation in the slow dynamical regime. Two different aspects are presented herein: (i) sputtering with reconstruction and (ii) internal destruction of a po...
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Non Trivial Processes for Obtaining Bi-Based High Tc Superconductors
Dysprosium doped Bi-based 2212 ceramics were synthesized by a melt-texturing growth process in a 1.2T magnetic field, applied perpendicularly to the main axis of a cylindrically shaped sample. The materials we...
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Directional solidification by appropriate chemically active single crystal seed: An alternative way of generating large superconducting 123 single domain
A Dy2O3 single crystal has been used as a seed for the growth of isothermally melt-textured Dy-123 material. The nucleation-controlled step has been observed to be related to the heterogeneous nucleation of 211 p...
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Evidence of d-wave pairing in the thermal conductivity of YBa2Cu3O7−d and Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 single crystals
The electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity of a d x 2−y 2-wave superconductor is calculated within a variational method. By considering the scattering ...
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Field percolation and high current density in 80/20 DyBa2Cu3O7 − x/Dy2BaCuO5 bulk magnetically textured composite ceramics
We measured the AC susceptibility of magnetically textured (123) 80%/211(20%) DyBaCuO composite in a special set-up in order to enhance the intergrain contribution. The synthesis process led to very clean “wea...
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Phase Transitions, Patterns and Statistical Mechanics of Front Propagation in a Dynamic Random Impurity Model for Strip, Unusual Trees and Other Geometries
A dynamic random impurity model is studied lor describing the evolution of an advancing interface through a multiphase random medium containing mobile impurities. A short range repulsion between the front and ...
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Influence of a non-uniform current density profile on quasiparticle excitations and thermally activated flux creep in YBa2Cu3O7−σ
The transport current density, flowing radially from the center of a superconducting disk to its perimeter, in a so-called Corbino geometry, results in a double action on the vortex motion when the applied mag...
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Magnetic alignment in 2212 Bi-based superconducting system: Part I. Magnetic orientation of Bi2Sr2Ca1−x(RE)xCu2O8−y [(RE) = Gd, Dy, Ho, Er] powder dispersed in epoxy resin at room temperature
The magnetic anisotropy of rare-earth substituted 2212 materials (Bi2Sr2Ca0.8RE0.2Cu2Ox with RE = Gd, Dy, Ho, Er) is put into evidence. Superconducting powder dispersed in epoxy resin is oriented under an externa...
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Polarized light microstructure analysis of melt-textured DyBa2Cu3O7−x ceramics
We report the microstructure of magnetically melt-textured Dy-123 samples, as observed by polarized light metallography. The phase dimensions, morphology, orientation, nature, and distribution are outlined. Gr...
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Non-isovalent alkali metal “substitution” in YBa2Cu3O7−y granular ceramics
The aim of this paper is to study the influence of non-isovalent “do**” in YBa2Cu3O7−y in particular on its synthesis conditions and on the resistive properties both with and without a magnetic field. We conce...
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Magnetic alignment in 2212 Bi-based superconducting system: II. Bi2Sr2Ca1−xDyxCu2O8−yx = 0.2 glass recrystallized in 0.6 T magnetic field
Starting from a glassy precursor, Bi2Sr2Ca1−xDyxCu2O8−y (for x = 0.2) was recrystallized under a 0.6 T magnetic field. After splat quenching, the samples were heated and sintered at different temperatures T1, the...
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Magnetotransport study of in situ magnetic field textured Dy1Ba2Cu3O7−δ superconductors
The electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power and the Nernst effect have been studied as a function of temperature and magnetic field for a typical superconductor DyBa2Cu3O7−δ magnetically textured in situ at ...
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Simulated growth and microstructure of DyBa2Cu3O7−x with and without Dy2BaCuO5 addition
We present optical observations of magnetically melt-textured DyBa2Cu3O7−x with and without 20 wt. % excess of Dy2BaCuO5. From these observations, we propose some kinetic mechanism of the growth of 123 compounds....
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Systems of reduced electron concentration and dimensionality
Semi-conductors, semi-metals and high critical temperature superconductors are systems with a reduced number of carriers and present effects which are sometimes related to a reduced dimensionality. We consider...
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Theory of thermoelectric power of model semimetals and semiconductors
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Paraconductivity Measurements and Comparative Studies of Fluctuations in BiSrCaCuO, YBaCuo and YBaCuO with Gd Substitution
Information concerning the dimensionality of the superconductive fluctuations in the new high temperature superconductors can be derived from the excess conductivity (or paraconductivity) near the transition t...
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Superconductivity Fluctuation Effects on Electrical and Thermal Transport Phenomena. H=0,T>TcI
The shape of the electrical resistance versus temperature curve in the vicinity of a superconductivity transition depends on the amount of superconducting materials (among other things) in the sample. The same...
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Superconductivity fluctuations in Bi(Pb) based granular ceramics superconductors: evidence for fractal behavior
We report precise measurements of the electrical resistivity in three different Bi(Pb) based granular ceramics superconductors. We show that a single critical exponent (5/6) describes the superconductivity flu...