Tc trend in high-Tc superconductors |
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Authors: | W Y Kwok and P C W Fung |
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Affiliation: | (1) Physics Department, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
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Abstract: | In our previous works, we have shown that most existing ceramic superconductors can be considered to be built of superconductor-semiconductor composite and we have estimated the change in phonon spectrum of the intrinsic superconductor unit if a semiconductor unit is attached to it. Moreover, the proximity effect under the size quantization condition has been examined in the superconductor-semiconductor composite. Each of the stated effects by itself could causeT
c
enhancement in general as more semiconductor blocks are added to the system. We extend our study in this paper to analyze the combined actions of phonon spectral change and proximity effect without size quantization condition onT
c
variation in members of the Tl1 series of high-T
c
superconductors. Our results indicate that an optimumT
c
is obtained if the stated effects are included in the idealized unit cells of the superconductors made up of a superconductor-semiconductor array. |
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Keywords: | Superconductor-semiconductor composite proximity effect size quantization |
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