Electron irradiation induced amorphization in YBa2Cu3O7 and GdBa2Cu3O7 superconductors Academic Article

abstract

• Transmission electron microscope specimens of the oxide superconductors YBa2Cu3O7 and GdBa2Cu3O7 have been irradiated at 35 K with 1 MeV electrons and doses up to 1.51023e/cm2. Electron diffraction data show the two different superconductors do not respond similarly with GdBa2Cu3O7 being more resistant to amorphization than YBa2Cu3O7. Amorphization appears to be dependent on displacements occurring at the Y/Gd lattice site. In addition, it appears that within each material, the electron dose required to initiate amorphization is lower for grain boundary irradiations relative to large single grain irradiations.

authors

• Nastasi, Michael

published proceedings

• Applied Physics Letters

author list (cited authors)

• Nastasi, M., Parkin, D. M., Zocco, T. G., Koike, J., & Okamoto, P. R.

citation count

• 39

complete list of authors

• Nastasi, M||Parkin, Don M||Zocco, TG||Koike, J||Okamoto, PR

publication date

• October 1988

publisher

• AIP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Applied Physics Letters  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5104 Condensed Matter Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1063/1.100451

start page

• 1326

end page

• 1328

volume

• 53

issue

• 14

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.100451