Decca, R. S., H. D. Drew, E. Osquiguil, B. Maiorov, and J. Guimpel. "Anomalous proximity effect in underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x Josephson junctions." Physical Review Letters 85, no. 17 (2000): 3708–3711.
Abstract: Experiments were carried out to probe the underdoped insulating material by the Josephson effect. Junctions were fabricated by exploiting the capability of locally photodoping insulating RBa2Cu3O6+x (R = rare earth) material. The existence of an anomalously large proximity effect was confirmed. The critical current of the junctions was consisted with the conventional Josephson relationship.
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Dhalle, M., W. Boon, E. Osquiguil, C. Van Haesendonck, Y. Bruynseraede, J. Kwarciak, and O. Van Der Biest. "Correlation between critical current and resistivity in YBa2Cu3O7." Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications 185-189, no. PART 4 (1991): 2447–2448.
Abstract: Critical current versus temperature measurements were carried out in ceramic YBa2Cu3O7 samples. The samples were all prepared using the same sintering procedure, but starting from powders obtained by different wet and dry methods. All samples showed a linear Jc vs. T behaviour, typical of Josephson weak-link coupling, with a slope that depends on the preparation method. Using the Ambegaokar-Baratoff relation for Jc, the difference in slopes can be attributed to a change in the characteristic value of the junction resistance. This value turns out to be clearly correlated with the resistivity in the normal state.
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L. "Dynamic softening of vortex lines in YBa2Cu3O7-? single crystals." Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications 260, no. 3-4 (1996): 211–216.
Abstract: Transport measurements in the mixed state of oxygen-deficient YBa2Cu3O7-? single crystals using the flux transformer configuration show that the flux liquid changes with increasing anisotropy from strongly correlated to uncorrelated in the field direction. For intermediate coupling, the current inducing loss of vortex correlation has a maximum near the irreversibility temperature. Thus, an effective softening of vortex lines with decreasing temperature is detected. We propose a simple model that accounts for this behavior by including the effects of the pinning potential on the dynamics of vortices.
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Lederman, D., J. Hasen, I. K. Schuller, E. Osquiguil, and Y. Bruynseraede. "Photoinduced superconductivity and structural changes in high temperature superconducting films." Applied Physics Letters 64, no. 5 (1994): 652–654.
Abstract: The illumination of PryGd1-yBa2Cu 3Ox semiconducting and superconducting thin films increases their critical temperatures and decreases their normal state resistivities if and only if the films are oxygen deficient. Moreover, these changes are enhanced near the Pr-induced metal-insulator transition. Light also causes a contraction of the c-axis in YBa2Cu3Ox which is correlated with the observed photoinduced resistivity changes. These changes are similar to those observed when oxygen-deficient YBa 2Cu3Ox is enriched with oxygen or annealed at room temperature after quenching from high temperatures.
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Lederman, D., E. Osquiguil, G. Nieva, J. Guimpel, J. Hasen, Y. Bruynseraede, and I. K. Schuller. "Photoinduced enhancement of superconductivity." Journal of Superconductivity 7, no. 1 (1994): 127–130.
Abstract: The photoinduced enhancement of superconductivity in RBa2Cu3Ox (R=rare earth or yttrium) and PryR1-yBa2Cu3Ox was explored through temperature-dependent resistivity, Hall coefficient and mobility, and x-ray diffraction measurements. The increases in Tc are enhanced near the metal-insulator transition, although photoinduced changes always exist in oxygendeficient samples. Several explanations, including intergrain Josephson coupling, photoassisted oxygen ordering, and the trapping of photogenerated electrons in oxygen vacancies, are discussed.
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Libbrecht, S., E. Osquiguil, and Y. Bruynseraede. "Influence of field inhomogeneity on the magnetization of YBCO films." Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications 225, no. 3-4 (1994): 337–345.
Abstract: DC magnetization data of superconducting thin YBCO films, measured by means of a magnetometer in which the sample is pulled through a set of pick-up coils, are often calculated from pick-up signals which clearly deviate from the ideal response. We show how these signal distortions influence the values obtained for the magnetization, and present a simple model that enables one to simulate the temperature dependence of these distorted pick-up signals, in the case of low-field magnetization measurements. The model is based on the magnetic field inhomogeneity of the magnetometer, in combination with the hysteretic magnetization of the superconducting sample. Optimum values for the model parameters are derived and discussed.
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Libbrecht, S., E. Osquiguil, B. Wuyts, M. Maenhoudt, Z. X. Gao, and Y. Bruynseraede. "Effect of room temperature annealing on the properties of oxygen- deficient YBa2Cu3Ox films." Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications 206, no. 1-2 (1993): 51–58.
Abstract: Annealing at room temperature of quenched oxygen-depleted YBa2Cu3Oxn (6.5?xn<6.8) films, produces a clear increase in the critical temperature Tc and current density Jc, while the normal state resistivity ?{variant}xx and Hall coefficient RH decrease as a function of annealing time, indicating an increase in carrier density. The enhancement of the critical current density Jc is more pronounced at high fields and temperatures due to a shift of the irreversibility line, which scales with the increasing Tc. The observed changes are accompanied by corresponding changes in the crystalline structure, which can be related to oxygen ordering effects.
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Luzuriaga, J., M. - O. Andre, and W. Benoit. "Frequency and amplitude response of the flux-line lattice to mechanical perturbation in ceramic YBa2Cu3O7." Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications 201, no. 3-4 (1992): 257–262.
Abstract: The mechanical response of the flux-line lattice has been measured with a low-frequency forced pendulum in ceramic YBa2Cu3O7. A dissipation peak observed in temperature sweeps is frequency-independent between 1 mHz and 5 Hz. Dissipation depends strongly on applied torque, and for fixed temperatures this dependence is well fitted by a rheological model of extended dry friction. If the model is extended to take account of thermal activation, however, it does not agree with the measured frequency independence, which is hard to explain within simple models of thermal activation.
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Núñez Regueiro, M., P. Esquinazi, M. A. Izbizky, C. Durán, D. Castello, and J. Luzuriaga. "Tunneling systems in high temperature superconductors." Annales de Physique 13, no. 5 (1988): 401–406.
Abstract: We have measured the thermal conductivity, sound attenuation and relative variation of sound velocity of compounds of the La-Sr-Cu-O and RBa2Cu3O7 families, where R is a rare-earth. We have found that all these properties can be quantitatively correlated within a tunneling system model similar to that used in amorphous materials. This interpretation would naturally explain the anomalous linear term of the low temperature specific heat observed in these materials.
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Osquiguil, E., M. Maenhoudt, B. Wuyts, Y. Bruynseraede, D. Lederman, G. Nieva, J. Guimpel, and I. K. Schuller. "Photoexcitation effects in YBa2Cu3Ox." Journal of Alloys and Compounds 195, no. C (1993): 667–670.
Abstract: We show through photoexcitation experiments carried out on YBa2Cu3Ox c-axis oriented films that photoinduced phenomena are not restricted to insulating samples. Superconducting films with critical temperatures varying between 2 K and 40 K show a clear enhancement of the superconducting transition after illumination. The increase in Tc is accompanied by a corresponding decrease in the resistivity ?, and an increase in the Hall coefficient RH, indicative of an increased carrier density. Furthermore, the carrier mobility is also affected by illumination.
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