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Role of Interfaces in the Proximity Effect in Anisotropic Superconductors

Emil Polturak, Gad Koren, David Cohen, Ofer Nesher, Roman Mints, Igor Snapiro

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9803361

Abstract

We report measurements of the critical temperature of YBCO-Co doped YBCO Superconductor-Normal bilayer films. Depending on the morphology of the S-N interface, the coupling between S and N layers can be turned on to depress the critical temperature of S by tens of degrees, or turned down so the layers appear almost totally decoupled. This novel effect can be explained by the mechanism of quasiparticle transmission into an anisotropic superconductor.

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