Abstract
We have applied pressure (i.e., stress) to single-crystal along the c axis to reduce the separation between the copper-oxygen planes. For the normal state, increasing pressures up to ∼1 kbar causes the c-axis resistivity to decrease dramatically and tend toward a metalliclike temperature dependence. No change is observed in the ab-plane resistivity. The superconducting increases with decreasing interplane separation with /dP≊0.1 K/kbar. Some implications of these findings for normal-state conduction mechanisms and models of high- superconductivity for are discussed.
- Received 5 August 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.39.4231
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