Borocarbide superconductors

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作者
Bhatnagar, AK [1 ]
Rathnayaka, KDD
Naugle, DG
机构
[1] Univ Hyderabad, Sch Phys, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
[2] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys, College Stn, TX 77840 USA
关键词
borocarbides; superconductors; transport properties;
D O I
10.1080/03772063.1999.11416095
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Recently discovered intermetallic RNi2B2C compounds show a wide variety of interesting physical properties depending upon R atom; compounds with R = Y, Lu are isotropic BCS-type superconductors with moderately high superconducting transition temperatures, R = Tm - Dy exhibit the coexistence of superconductivity with magnetic order and R = Yb behaves like a heavy fermion metal. Results on some of normal state transport properties, namely, electrical resistivity, absolute thermopower and Hall effect, and superconducting properties of these compounds are discussed.
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