Defects and Superconductivity in the Copper Oxides

JUN 01, 1991

It is not enough to know what the ideal structures are, because superconducting properties depend very much on structural defects—and on the arrangement of defects.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881304

James D. Jorgensen

Few superconducting materials have presented us with the structural elegance and complexity displayed by the recently discovered high‐ $T_{c}$ copper oxides. The structures of these materials, consisting of metal‐oxygen layers stacked in a variety of sequences, with the metal atoms often in unusual coordinations, are interesting in their own right. More importantly, our present understanding of the properties of the oxide superconductors depends heavily on a knowledge of their structures.

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James D. Jorgensen. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois.