The isotope effect coefficient dependence on nonstoichiometry for single CuO layer superconductors

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Volumn 270, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 317-326

  Buzea, Cristina ^a   Yamashita, Tsutomu ^a   Nakajima, Kensuke ^a   Buzea, Calin Gh ^b   Agop, Maricel ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (Romania)

^c GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Critical temperature; Dopant content; Isotope effect; Pair breaking time; Single Cu O layer superconductors

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COPPER OXIDES; ISOTOPES; STOICHIOMETRY; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ISOTOPE EFFECTS;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0030262254     PISSN: 09214534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4534(96)00509-6     Document Type: Article

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