Objective
The layered structure is a common feature of all the cuprate high-Tc superconductors: highly conducting CuO2 planes which carry the superconducting electrons are separated and coupled by layers of weakly conducting material. This structure is very important for an understanding of the highly anisotropic superconducting properties of these materials. The recently discovered intrinsic Josephson effect in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 shows that a Josephson-coupling exists between different CuO2 layers. This intrinsic Josephson effect on an atomic scale is very promising in view of future applications of these materials as detectors and generators of sub-millimetre radiation.
In this project, some basic problems concerning the layered structure and the coupling between the layers will be investigated: conductivity in c-direction including the Josephson effect; the effect of fluctuations and localization; conductivity along the planes including vortex pinning and proximity effect between different electronic bands; and upper critical fields in layered superconductors.
These investigations are aimed at clarifying the microscopic mechanism for the Josephson-coupling between the superconducting layers and to determine basic parameters of the superconducting state like the still unknown structure of the superconducting order parameter.
In this co-operation, which has been established for several years, the different groups combine their specific research experience on Josephson-coupling, fluctuation effects, magnetic field effects, dynamical properties of layered superconductors, with experimental experience to measure the anisotropic transport properties of such systems.
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93040 Regensburg
Germany
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