Research Article

Aging Effect on Electrical Conductivity of Pure and Al-Doped YBa2Cu3O7−δ Single Crystals with a Given Topology of Planar Defects

Table 1

Resistivity parameters of the as-grown and aged samples.

No Sample , K (300 K), cm , K , meV ,

K1 as-grown 91.75 151 138 88.7 −0.508 −1.084 0.061 1.45
aged 90.83 196 167 66.3 −0.503 −1.062 0.088 1.74

K2 as-grown 92.05 421 199 58.1 −0.506 −0.990 0.157 2.32
aged 90.85 453 228 45.5 −0.495 −1.017 0.188 2.54