H. Szymczak et al., METASTABLE PHOTOINDUCED CHANGES IN THE MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES OF TL2BA2CACU2O8 THIN-FILMS, Europhysics letters, 35(6), 1996, pp. 451-456
We report on the persistent photoinduced changes of intrinsic (critica
l temperature) and extrinsic (FC magnetization and width of the hyster
esis loop) superconducting parameters of Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 thin films. The
relaxation back to the original state is very slow, being of the orde
r of days at room temperature. Qualitatively the observed photoinduced
changes may be considered as manifestations of two different types of
photosensitive pinning centers in the investigated films.