March 26, 2007
Author(s)
H Su, D O. Welch, Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, Z Yang
The conventional Debye temperature, customarily estimated using an isotropic approximation, fails to account for the trend of melting temperatures for the high Tc superconductors, RBa2Cu3O7-d (R-123), as a function of the ionic radius of R3+, or r(R3+). We