THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF RESISTANCE AND CRITICAL CURRENT IN GRANULAR YBa2Cu3Ox SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS

Abstract
Temperature dependence of resistance R(T) and critical transport current I c (T) was measured for high-Tc YBa 2 Cu 3 O x granular thin films prepared by vacuum co-evaporation. The results are interpreted in terms of superconductor-constriction-superconductor (ScS) or superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) models, shown to be more adequate than the superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) one. The films with nearly the same superconducting phase transition can exhibit both metallic (dR/dT>0) or semiconductor (dR/dTTcon. This is ascribed to intragranular defects which are shunted below T con .

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