Observation of superconductivity in a bromine- and iodine-doped Y-Ba-Cu-O ceramic
Osip'yan Yu. A., Zharikov O. V., Novikov G. V., Sidorov N. S., Kulakov V. I., Sipavina L. V., Nikolaev R. K., Gromov A. M.
A transition to a superconducting (diamagnetic) state has been observed in nonsuperconducting tetragonal samples of a YBa2Cu30(1 { ceramic heat-treated with gaseous bromine or iodine. The transition begins at Tti) ~ 75 К or T<i} ~ 50 K, respectively.