High temperature superconductors salts

Whenever ta tb the Fermi surfaces will be closed. This is the case with most of the ET salts and the high-temperature superconductors. These solids are intrinsically quasi-two-dimensional. The RG does not apply since there is no one-dimensional regime. Nesting is relevant to only few ET, a... 

Other high-temperature superconductors can be described in similar fashion, e.g. Tl2Ca2Ba2Cu30io (containing Tl, Ca and Ba centres) is composed of layer sequence 27.4. The non-Cu02 oxide layers in the cuprate superconductors are isostructural with layers from an NaCl structure, and so the structures are sometimes described in terms of perovskite and rock salt layers. 

Cuprate high-temperature superconductors are copper-containing perovskite-derived oxides. Many of these maintain the superconducting state to temperatures above that of liquid nitrogen (Table 8.1). The stmctures of the superconductors are built up of slices of perovskite type linked by slabs with stmctures (in the main) of the rock salt (NaCl) or fluorite (CaFj) type (Section 4.6). The copper valence in most compounds lies between the formal values of Cu and Cu ". 

Because of the high values of conductivity which in individual cases are found at room temperature, such compounds are often called superionic conductors or ionic superconductors but these designations are unfounded, and a more correct designation is solid ionic conductors. Strictly unipolar conduction is typical for all solid ionic conductors in the silver double salts, conduction is due to silver ion migration, whereas in the sodium polyaluminates, conduction is due to sodium ion migration. 

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