화학공학소재연구정보센터
Science, Vol.279, No.5354, 1193-1196, 1998
Images of interlayer Josephson vortices in Tl2Ba2CuO6+delta
The strength of the interlayer Josephson tunneling in layered superconductors is an essential test of the interlayer tunneling model as a mechanism for superconductivity, as well as a useful phenomenological parameter. A scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope was used to image interlayer Josephson vortices in Tl2Ba2CuO6+delta and to obtain a direct measure of the interlayer tunneling in a high-transition temperature superconductor with a single copper oxide plane per unit cell. The measured interlayer penetration depth, lambda(c), is similar to 20 micrometers, about 20 times the penetration depth required by the interlayer tunneling model.