Published 1987 | Version v1
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Energy gap of high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O9-x

  • 1. Shanghai Inst. of Technical Physics, Shanghai (China). Lab. of Infrared Physics
  • 2. Fudan Univ., Shanghai, SH (China). Dept. of Physics

Description

The far infra-red (IR) reflectances of the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O9-x(Tc = 90 K) are measured in the frequency range 25-150 cm-1 and the temperature range 4.2 - 200 K. The reflectance curve at 4.2 K rapidly drops near 125 cm-1, whereas the curves at T>90 K go smoothly. Such a superconductor might have an energy gap 2Δ = 15.5 meV, and the ratio 2Δ/ kTc 2.0 is close to that of La-Ba-Cu-O and La-Sr-Cu-O superconductors, but well smaller than the BCS value 3.5. (author). 9 refs, 1 fig

Part of:
Proceedings of the Adriatico research conference on high temperature superconductors

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Publishing Information

Publisher
World Scientific.
Imprint Place
Singapore (Singapore)
ISBN
9971-50-399-9; 9971-50-400-6 (pbk)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the Adriatico research conference on high temperature superconductors
Imprint Pagination
527 p.
Journal Issue
V. 1
Series
Progress in high temperature superconductivity.
Journal Page Range
p. 473-477.

Conference

Title
Adriatico research conference on high temperature superconductors.
Dates
5-8 Jul 1987.
Place
Trieste (Italy).

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