Successive ionic layer deposition (SILD), also known as successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR), is an aqueous method which exploits the electric double layer effect to create thin solid films on supports. In SILD, submonolayers of desired cations and anions are alternately and selectively adsorbed on a support material to produce SILD nanoislands or nanolayers with controlled co...

Elastic-to-plastic crossover below the peak effect in the vortex solid of YBa2Cu3O7 single crystals S. O. Valenzuela,1,* B. Maiorov, E. Osquiguil, and V. Bekeris Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas, Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón I, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Comisión Nacional de Energı́a Atómic...

The effect of twin planes in YBa2Cu3O7 on the superconducting current flow is investigated. A single crystal containing only two twin planes is studied magneto-optically up to 1 T. It is found that flux enters the crystal very easily along the twin planes, but that it does not leave the sample preferentially along the twin planes. The flux present in the twin planes reduces the flux penetration...

Charge neutrality and stoichiometry impose severe restrictions on the mechanisms of epitaxial growth of complex oxides. The fundamental question arises of what is the minimum growth unit when sample thickness is reduced beyond the size of the unit cell. We have investigated the growth mechanism of YBa2Cu3O7 cuprate superconductor, using a consistent approach based on the growth of noninteger nu...

The transport critical current Jc in a polycrystalline superconductor is a hysteretic function of applied magnetic field H0 due to flux trapping by grains. This effect has been observed by several groups and attempts have been made to calculate the intergranular field Hi as a function of the applied H0 in terms of an effective geometrical demagnetization factor D. In general a first-principles ...

BaHfO3 (BHO) has been proposed as a new cap layer material for YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) coated conductors. Highly c-axis oriented BHO cap layer has been deposited on ion-beam assisted deposition-MgO buffered Hastelloy tapes by direct-current-magnetron sputtering method. The epi-growth of BHO films combined with its properties is investigated in details. The degenerated cubic crystal structure of BHO ...

Phase-sensitive tests of pairing symmetry have provided strong evidence for predominantly d-wave pairing symmetry in both the holeand electron-doped high-Tc cuprate superconductors. Temperature dependent measurements in YBa2Cu3O7−δ (YBCO) indicate that the d-wave pairing dominates, with little if any imaginary component, at all temperatures from 0.5K through Tc. In this article we review some o...

067002-1 We have investigated the temperature dependence of the optical reflectivity on a femtosecond scale in a near optimally doped YBa2Cu3O7 superconductor. The combined study of the lattice and carrier dynamics at temperatures above Tc allows us to identify two crossover temperatures in the normal state, giving evidence for an inhomogeneity of the pseudogap regime. These crossovers exhibit ...

Angular dependent resistivity measurements of optimally doped YBa2Cu3O7 films in fields H pulsed to 50 T are presented. Up to the highest H, the vortex melting field Hm increases and vortex motion is reduced for H aligned with the correlated pinning centers along the main crystalline axes, otherwise 3D anisotropic scaling describes the vortex dynamics. For H parallel ab, the rapid increase in H...