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Title: Absorption spectroscopy of electronic states near Fermi level; Temperature changes of superconducting YBa sub 2 Cu sub 3 O sub 7 minus. delta. films at T sub c

Journal Article · · Modern Physics Letters B; (Singapore)
OSTI ID:5001291
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  1. Inst. for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, UkrSSR Academy of Sciences, Kharkov (SU)

This paper reports that the temperature behavior of the absorption spectra of superconducting YBa{sub 2}-Cu{sub 3}-O{sub 7{minus}{delta}} textured films is measured in a 1.5 + 3.0 eV energy region with varying temperatures from 25 to 300 K. The spectra are found to be sensitive to a superconducting transition: the temperature-dependent behavior of absorption at T {gt} T{sub c} undergoes critical changes under the superconducting transition and for T {lt} T{sub c} the spectrum ceases to depend on temperature. The spectra display an exciton maximum in the optical gap E{sub g} = 1.95 eV. The spectrum freezing at T{lt} T{sub c} can be explained assuming that the Fermi level is in temperature resonance with a narrow local level which is responsible for a delta-like singularity in the density of states.

OSTI ID:
5001291
Journal Information:
Modern Physics Letters B; (Singapore), Vol. 6:9; ISSN 0217-9849
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English