Electronic Properties of High-Tc Superconductors: The Normal and the Superconducting State of High-Tc Materials

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
High-Temperature Superconductors in 1992 Welcome Address....Pages 1-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Charge Dynamics in Metallic CuO 2 Layers....Pages 5-12
Superconductivity in the Infinite-Layer Phase Stabilized Under High Pressure....Pages 13-18
Crystal Chemistry and Superconductivity in M(Ba 1−y Sr y ) 2 RECu 2 O x ....Pages 19-23
Superconducting Mixed-Metal Oxide Compounds of the Type Sr 2 Ln 1.5 Ce 0.5 MCu 2 O 10−δ , Ln = Sm, Eu, M = Nb, Ta....Pages 24-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
High-T c Superconductivity: Present Status of Applications....Pages 31-36
Recent High-T c -SQUID Developments....Pages 37-44
Epitaxial YBCO Films on MgO, SrTiO 3 , Si, and GaAs by Thermal Coevaporation....Pages 45-49
Preparation and Patterning of (110) Oriented YBaCuO Thin Films....Pages 50-54
YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 /PrBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 Superlattices: Properties of Ultrathin YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 Layers....Pages 55-56
Synthesis of New HTS by Pulsed Laser Deposition....Pages 57-61
Epitaxial Growth of Thin-Film Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+x on LaAlO 3 (001), NdGaO 3 (001) and MgO(001)....Pages 62-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Aspects of Quantum Coherence in Superconducting Rings: Flux Quantisation in a Heavy Fermion/Niobium Hybrid Ring and the Origin of Noise in a HTC DC SQUID....Pages 69-82
Effect of Thermodynamic Fluctuations on the Transport Properties in YBaCuO Thin Films....Pages 83-87
Metallic Weak-Link Character of Grain Boundaries in High-T c Materials....Pages 88-92
The Chemical Potential and Thermodynamic Properties of Narrow-Band Superconductors....Pages 93-98
Nonequilibrium Properties of HTSC Under Microwave Irradiation....Pages 99-103
Hall Effect of Epitaxial YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−x and Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O y Films....Pages 104-107
Anomalous Thermoelectric Power of the High-T c Materials in Normal State: Both Copper Oxides and C 60 Fullerene....Pages 108-112
On the Valency of Pr in (Y 1−x Pr x )Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7 ....Pages 113-118
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Anisotropy of Transport Properties of HTSC Monocrystals....Pages 119-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
On the Surface-Derived State of Cleaved YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ Single Crystals....Pages 127-133
Investigation of the Electronic Structure of High-Temperature Superconductors by Polarized X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 134-140
Unusual Temperature-Dependent Behavior of the Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ Energy Gap....Pages 141-144
Metal and Semiconductor Overlayers on Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ ....Pages 145-148
Electronic Properties of T*-Nd 1.4 Ce 0.2 Sr 0.4 CuO 4−δ ....Pages 149-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Introduction to the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in High-T c Superconductors....Pages 155-161
Probing the Electronic Structure of Y-Ba-Cu-O Superconductors by Cu, O and Ba NQR and NMR....Pages 162-167
NMR Investigation of Low-Energy Excitations in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6+x Single Crystals....Pages 168-174
Vortex Lattice and Vortex Motion in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ and YBa 2 Cu 4 O 8 Superconductors from 89 Y NMR....Pages 175-179
Neutron Scattering Investigation of the Spin Dynamics in the High-Temperature Superconducting System YBa 2 Cu 3 0 6+x ....Pages 180-195
 205 Tl NMR in the High-T c Superconductor Tl 2 Ba 2 CaCu 2 O 8−δ ....Pages 196-199
Effects of Ni to Cu Substitution in La 2 CuO 4 from 139 La NQR and Relaxation....Pages 200-204
 1 H-NMR in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ H x ....Pages 205-208
Probing the Flux Distribution of Thin Films by Surface Spin Probes....Pages 209-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Phonon Self-Energy Effects in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ Below T c : The Role of Oxygen Disorder....Pages 215-219
Normal-State Conductivity of Cuprate Superconductors: One-Component and Two-Component Viewpoints....Pages 220-224
Resonant Raman Scattering in Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 1−z Y z Cu 2 O 8+δ Single Crystals....Pages 225-234
Normal-State Infrared Response from Ellipsometric Measurements: YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 and PrBa 2 CU 3 O 7 ....Pages 235-243
Front Matter....Pages 244-248
Change of Electronic Structures with Varying Lattice Distortion and Metal Valence in Titanium and Vanadium Oxides....Pages 213-213
Tests for Nonreciprocal Optical Effects in High-Temperature Superconductors....Pages 249-255
Search for Time Reversal Symmetry Violation in High-Temperature Superconductors....Pages 256-262
Far-Infrared Applications of High-Temperature Superconductors: Fabry-Pérot Resonators and Fast Detectors....Pages 263-268
Application of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ Thin Films on Silicon Substrates for Far-Infrared Fabry-Pérot Resonators....Pages 269-273
Giant Voltages Upon Surface Heating in Normal YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ Films Explained by an Atomic-Layer Thermopile....Pages 274-277
Study of Residual Absorption of High-T c Thin Films by Means of Photothermal Interference Spectroscopy....Pages 278-281
Damping of Spin Excitations in the HTC-Cuprates: Undoped and Lightly Doped Material....Pages 282-285
Raman Study of the Order Parameter in Oxide Superconductors....Pages 286-290
Impurities and Raman Scattering in High-T c Superconductors....Pages 291-295
Polarization-Dependent Electronic Raman Scattering in Single Crystals of REBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−x ....Pages 296-299
Chain-Oxygen Vibrations and Phonon Anomalies Above T c in RBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 and YBa 2 Cu 4 O 8 ....Pages 300-305
Phonon Softening and Electron-Phonon Interaction in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ ....Pages 306-309
Phonon Behavior in the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O-System....Pages 310-313
Optical and Electrical Properties of Rare-Earth Substituted Ceramic Samples of the Y-Ba-Cu-O-System....Pages 314-317
Far-Infrared Properties of Y 1−x Pr x Ba 2 Cu 3 O y Ceramics....Pages 318-321
Influence of the Oxygen Content on the Optical Conductivity Function of YBa 2 Cu 3 O x (6 ≤ × ≤ 7)....Pages 322-325
Effect of Cu—O Planes and Oxygen Content on Optical Properties of BISCO Crystals....Pages 326-329
Optical Anisotropy and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 Single Crystals....Pages 330-333
Midgap Electronic States in Semiconducting YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6+x : A NIR Excited Raman Investigation....Pages 334-338
Front Matter....Pages 339-343
Optical Absorption due to Pr 3+ 4f-4f Transitions in PrBa 2 Cu 3 O x (x ≈ 6)....Pages 213-213
Front Matter....Pages 344-347
One- and Two-Particle Excitations in Doped Mott-Hubbard Insulators....Pages 349-349
Consistent Description of High-T c Superconductors with the Three-Band Hubbard Model: Quantum Monte Carlo Studies....Pages 351-367
Relation Between Transition Temperature, London Penetration Depth and Kosterlitz-Thouless Behavior in Superconductors....Pages 368-374
“Small” Masses and Strong Coupling in High-T c Superconductors and in Heavy-Fermion Compounds....Pages 375-384
Electronic Structure and Superconductivity in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 /PrBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 Superlattices....Pages 385-390
Intermediate Range Order in the Possibility of Nonlinear Excitations in the Doping Subsystems of Cuprates....Pages 391-396
Phase Separation and High-T c Superconductivity....Pages 397-401
Temperature-Dependent Phase Separation in the Emery Model....Pages 402-408
Pairing Interaction Induced by Distortive Electron Lattice Coupling....Pages 409-412
Cooperative Electronic Phenomena in High-T c Superconductors....Pages 413-416
Calculation of Electronic Excitation and Ionization Process in High-T c Superconductors....Pages 417-421
Investigation of Tunneling, Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Negative-U Local-Pair Model for Oxide High-T c Superconductors....Pages 422-425
Electric Field Gradient Calculations of PrBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 ....Pages 426-429
Are There Ordering Effects in Ba(Pb,Bi)O 3 and (Ba,K)BiO 3 ?....Pages 430-433
Constraint-FLAPW Calculations and Determination of Hubbard Model-Parameters for BaBiO 3 ....Pages 434-437
Electronic Structure Aspects of the Pressure Dependence of T c in High-T c Superconductors....Pages 438-441
Charge-Transfer Interplay Between Cu-O Planes in the YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ Family of Superconductors: Its Dependence on Oxygen Ordering and Stoichiometry....Pages 442-446
Anharmonic Effects in the Apex O Phonon in Relation to the Background Continuum in High-T c Cuprates....Pages 447-451
Front Matter....Pages 452-456
Fullerenes and Fullerites: New Forms of Carbon....Pages 457-457
Front Matter....Pages 459-465
Temperature- and Doping-Induced Phase Transitions in C 60 ....Pages 457-457
Preparation of Single-Crystal Buckminster Fullerenes from Transport Reactions....Pages 466-470
Superconducting Properties of Fullerenes Doped with Binary Thallium Alloys....Pages 471-474
Electronic Structure Studies of Fullerites and Fullerides....Pages 475-481
X-Ray Absorption Study of Iodine-Doped C 60 ....Pages 482-491
In-situ UV/VIS and Infrared Spectroscopy of Potassium-Doped C 60 ....Pages 492-496
Infrared Absorption by Charged Phonons in Doped C 60 ....Pages 497-500
Van der Waals Cohesion and Plasmon Excitations in C 60 Fullerite....Pages 501-506
Fullerene Field-Effect Transistors....Pages 507-511
High-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Thin C 60 Films....Pages 512-515
Electronic Structure of Alkali-Metal Doped C 60 : Dependence of the Fermi-Level Densities of States on the Lattice Parameter....Pages 516-519
Back Matter....Pages 520-523
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