Electrical response of superconducting YBa₂Cu₃O_{7- δ} to light

Authors

W.S. Brocklesby, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Don Monroe, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
A.F.J. Levi, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
M. Hong, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Sy_Hwang Liou, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
J. Kwo, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
C.E. Rice, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey
P.M. Mankiewich, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey
R.E. Howard, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey

Date of this Version

March 1989

Comments

Published by American Institute of Physics. Appl. Phys. Lett. 54, 1175(1989). © 1989 American Institute of Physics. Permission to use. http://jap.aip.org/jap/.

Abstract

We have studied the effect of visible and near-infrared light on the electrical properties of superconducting thin films of YBa₂Cu₃O_{7- δ} . The responses we observe can all be explained in terms of light heating the film to a temperature above the superconducting transition. No evidence that the light directly affects superconductivity was found.