Effect of particle-induced displacements on the critical temperature of YBa2Cu3O7 Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The particle-induced depression of the superconducting critical temperature Tc of YBa2Cu3O7 is shown to be directly proportional, over seven orders of magnitude, to the nonionizing energy deposited in the lattice by primary knock-on atoms displaced by incident electrons, protons, and heavy ions. It is concluded that Tc is proportional only to the average number of defects produced and can therefore be predicted for any particle, energy, and fluence from a calculation of the nonionizing energy loss.

published proceedings

  • Applied Physics Letters

author list (cited authors)

  • Summers, G. P., Burke, E. A., Chrisey, D. B., Nastasi, M., & Tesmer, J. R.

citation count

  • 90

publication date

  • October 1989