U. Welp et al., EFFECT OF GOLD IMPURITIES ON THE SUPERCONDUCTING FLUCTUATIONS AND THEUPPER CRITICAL-FIELD OF YBA2CU3O7-DELTA SINGLE-CRYSTALS, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 47(18), 1993, pp. 12369-12372
High-resolution measurements of the reversible magnetization of YBa2Cu
3O7-delta single crystals which were grown in gold crucibles and zirco
nia crucibles reveal that, within the experimental accuracy, gold impu
rities do not influence the normal-state susceptibility, the upper cri
tical field, nor the superconducting fluctuation phenomena.