Thermal-electrical domain in Y-Ba-Cu-O ceramic and its analogs
Osip'yan Yu. A., Nikolaev R. K., Sidorov N. S. , Bobrov V. S. , Tsoi V. S.
As a current flows through a sample of a Y-Ba-Cu-O ceramic or one of its analogs, a region with local increases in the temperature and the resistance appears (a thermal-electrical domain). In the direct-current case, this domain is observed to drift. The drift direction depends on the polarity of the current.