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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 3(98), 2007

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.036401

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Direct Measurement of Sheet ResistanceR□in Cuprate Systems: Evidence of a Fermionic Scenario in a Metal-Insulator Transition

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Abstract

The metal-insulator transition (MIT) has been studied in Ba(0.9)Nd(0.1)CuO(2+x)/CaCuO2 ultrathin cuprate structures. Such structures allow for the direct measurement of the 2D sheet resistance R( square), eliminating ambiguity in the definition of the effective thickness of the conducting layer in high temperature superconductors. The MIT occurs at room temperature for experimental values of R(square) close to the 25.8 kOmega universal quantum resistance. All data confirm the assumption that each CaCuO2 layer forms a 2D superconducting sheet within the superconducting block, which can be described as weak-coupled equivalent sheets in parallel.