Published December 10, 1990 | Version v1
Journal article

Pinning by oxygen vacancies in high-Tc superconductors

  • 1. Laboratoire Louis Neel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 166X, Grenoble CEDEX (France)
  • 2. Physics Department, Lehman College, The City University of New York, Bronx, NY (USA)

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It is shown that recent data of Murray et al. on spatial correlations in flux lattices of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O (BSCCO) may be explained if one assumes that 1% of oxygen atoms in CuO2 layers are missing. This estimate, being in remarkable agreement with that deduced by Kes and van der Beek from ac-susceptibility measurements, provides strong confidence that oxygen vacancies are the major source of pinning in BSCCO

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
65
Journal Issue
24
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
3060-3062
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA