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Quantitative analysis of growth-induced reduction of long range lattice order in ion-beam sputtered YBa2Cu3O6.9 films

Davor Pavuna
1995
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We report evidence for the reduction of long range lattice order caused by slight departures from the optimal growth temperature in fully doped (x≈0.9) YBa2Cu3O6+x films deposited by ion-beam sputtering on 〈001⟩ SrTiO3. We estimate the characteristic length of this disorder from the broadening Δ∂ of the 〈005⟩ X-ray diffraction rocking curve. The depression of superconductivity and normal conductivity scales as Δ∂ and disappears when the in-plane lattice coherence length rc~1/Δ∂ is larger than ≈10 nm

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Davor Pavuna
1995
Journal Articles

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/ef6b1871-8c8a-4b8f-ab90-485c4ba24238

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