A Summary of Some Work on High Temperature Superconductors at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Abstract

The following presentation gives a summary of recent high T_c superconductivity work by the Brookhaven staff. Significant work done by outside users on the major facilities is not discussed here. Theoretical work on mechanisms of superconductivity, will be discussed separately by V. Emery elsewhere in this proceedings. The experimental work can be divided into two major categories; scattering and spectroscopy experiments at the Brookhaven facilities, and measurements of the macroscopic electrical and magnetic properties of the superconductors, as well as an additional contribution on sample preparation. An example of the complimentary nature of these techniques is shown for the case of penetration depth measurements, where the value of λ obtained using mu mesons as a microscopic probe of the internal fields is different than that obtained inductively. This difference leads to some insight into the inter-granular coupling.

The submitted manuscripts have been authored under contract DE-AC02-7600016 with the Division of Materials Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy.