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Evolution of the Structure and Magnetic Properties of the High-Tc Superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.92 in the Sol–Gel Synthesis Process
We have studied the effect of sol–gel synthesis conditions on the structural and magnetic properties of the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3Oy (y = 6.92 ± 0.02). Two low-temperature (<800°C) synthesis procedures ha...
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Formation of Fermi Arcs at T \( \ll \) Tc in the Vicinity of d-Wave Nodes of Structurally Inhomogeneous YBa2Cu3O6.92 HTSCs
The influence of structural inhomogeneity on a superconducting gap near d-wave nodes is co-nsidered for optimally doped YBa2Cu3O6.92 HTSCs. To this aim, specific heat in the temperature range of T = 2‒10 K at mag...
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Comparative Study of the Physical Properties of Fine-Crystalline Mechanoactivated and Sol–Gel Samples of YBa2Cu3O6.92 High-Temperature Superconductors
A technique based on the sol–gel technology is developed for the synthesis of fine-crystalline YBa2Cu3O6.92 (Tc = 91.5 K) high-temperature superconductors (HTSCs), including the step-by-step annealing of the samp...
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Schottky Anomalies in the Low-Temperature Specific Heat of YBa2Cu3Oy HTSC
The evolution of the Schottky anomalies in the temperature dependence of the specific heat (in the temperature range T = 2–10 K and the magnetic field range H = 0–9 T) of polycrystalline YBa2Cu3Oy HTSCs is studie...
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Magnetodynamic Studies of Fine-Crystalline YBa2Cu3Oy High-Temperature Superconductor Samples Synthesized by the Sol–Gel Method
Measurements of the complex magnetic susceptibility as a function of the temperature, alternating field amplitude, and the parallel applied constant field values for a series of YBa2Cu3Oy high-temperature superco...
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Magnetization and Static Magnetic Susceptibility of Fine-Crystalline High-Temperature YBa2Cu3Oy Superconductors Synthesized by the Sol–Gel Method
A comparative study of the magnetization and static magnetic susceptibility of high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) YBa2Cu3Oy synthesized by two variants of the sol–gel method with different average sizes of c...
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Suppression of the superconducting gap near d-wave nodes caused by the structural disorder in fine-crystalline YBa2Cu3O y high-T c superconductors
The low-temperature (2 K ≤ T ≤ 10 K) specific heat of the series of fine-crystalline samples of YBa2Cu3O y high-Tc superconductor optimally doped with oxygen and having differen...
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Peculiarities in the low-temperature specific heat related to nanoscale structural inhomogeneity in fine-crystalline YBa2Cu3O6.93 high-T c superconductors
A comparative study of the low-temperature specific heat for two types of YBa2Cu3O y high-T c superconductor samples is performed within the temp...
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Paramagnetism of copper–oxygen chains in high-temperature YBa2Cu3O6 + δ superconductors
Experimental evidence for the existence of chain paramagnetic Curie-type contributions to the temperature dependence of static magnetic susceptibility χ(T) in the normal (nonsuperconducting) state is obtained for...
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Magnetic susceptibility of fine crystalline high-temperature YBa2Cu3O6.93 superconductors. The role of nanoscale structural disordering
Static magnetic susceptibility χ(T) in the normal state (T c ≤ T ≤ 400 K) and specific heat C(T) near temperature T c of the transition to the super...
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Enhancement of pseudogap anomalies induced by nanoscale structural inhomogeneity in YBa2Cu3O6.93 high-T c superconductor
The magnetization M(H) in the superconducting state, dc magnetic susceptibility χ(T) in the normal state, and specific heat C(T) near the superconducting transition temperature T c
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Manifestation of pseudogap features in structurally inhomogeneous optimally doped HTSC YBa2Cu3O6.92
Magnetization M(H,T) in magnetic fields H up to 90 kOe and at temperatures 2 K ≤ T < T c (where Tc is the superconducting transition temperature), along with magnetic susceptibilit...
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Comparative study of structure disordering effects in fine-crystalline HTSC YBa2Cu3O6.9 samples obtained by different methods
A comparative study of the structure-sensitive magnetic properties of fine-crystalline YBa2Cu3O y samples obtained by different methods (the sol-gel technique and mechanical act...
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Evolution of atomic ordering in fine-grained YBa2Cu3O y high-temperature superconductors and its effect on superconducting transition temperature
Regularities of changes in unit cell parameters and superconducting properties of the optimally doped fine-grained YBa2Cu3O y (y ≈ 6.92) high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) ...
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Disordering effects in the atomic structure of fine-crystalline HTSC YBa2Cu3O y
The atomic structure of YBa2Cu3O y fine-crystalline HTSC samples with various average crystallite sizes 〈D〉 ranging from 0.4 to 2 μm and an oxygen concentration y close to the o...
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Oxygen defects relaxation in high-temperature YBa2Cu3O7 superconductors
The temperature dependences of normal state static magnet susceptibility χ(T) for high-temperature YBa2Cu3O7 superconductors (T c ≤ T ≤ 400 K) measured for the same sample before and after 22 year...
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Suppression of hole do** in fine-grained HTSC YBa2Cu3O y due to structural disordering
It was proven experimentally that the structural disordering inherent to fine-grained high-temper- ature YBa2Cu3O y superconductors (with an average grain size of 〈D〉 < 2 μm) le...
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Features of the superconducting state and structural disorder in ultrafine particles of the HTSC YBa2Cu3O y
We study the reasons for which the compound YBa2Cu3O y begins to lose its superconducting ability with a decrease in particle sizes to values of ∼0.1 μm. Our analysis of the res...
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The influence of interplane oxygen redistribution on the magnetization of fine-grained HTSC YBa2Cu3O y
The magnetization of the fine-grained high-temperature superconductor (HTSC) YBa2Cu3O y is experimentally investigated at T < T c ...
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The oxygen content and its ordering in the chain planes in fine-grained HTSC YBa2Cu3O y
A comparative analysis of the results of the X-ray and Mösbauer studies of the high-temperature superconductor (HTSC) YBa2Cu3O y and YBa2Cu3 − x ...