Published March 1, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Cooperative weak links in sintered Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductor

  • 1. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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The I-V characteristics of Y-Ba-Cu-O have been measured for several temperatures below T/sub c/. A clear ''footlike'' structure is developed when the temperature goes down from T/sub c/, strongly reminiscent of the case in superconducting weak links. The energy gap derived from the critical current and the ''excess current'' is about 18.4 meV at T = 0 and with a roughly Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-type of variation at T>0. The results are indicative of a kind of ''cooperative'' weak link behavior in sintered superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., B: Condens. Matter
Journal Volume
37
Journal Issue
7
Series
Phys. Rev., B: Condens. Matter.
Journal Page Range
3681-3684
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMD