Abstract
High quality thin films of oxygen-depleted YBa2Cu3Ox (x≈6.6) were prepared by pulsed-laser deposition on SrTiO3, substrates that were cut with tilt angles of 10° and 20° with respect to the [001] direction, resulting in a steplike growth of the layers. The resistance showed a semiconducting behavior along the projection of the c axis to the film surface, but a metallic behavior in the perpendicular direction, indicating that the former is dominated by the c-axis resistivity and the latter by the ab-plane resistivity of YBa2Cu3Ox. Long-term illumination of the samples with a 100 W halogen lamp resulted in a significant conductivity enhancement in both directions. The photoinduced change of the out-of-plane resistance vs temperature characteristics is comparable to the effect of large hydrostatic pressure, introducing structural changes similar to that of photoexcitation.
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