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Materials 2011, 4, 1835-1845; doi:10.3390/ma4101835 OPEN ACCESS materials ISSN 1996-1944 /journal/materials Article The Origin of T Enhancement in Heterostructure Cuprate Superconductors Doron L. Bergman and Tamar Pereg-Barnea Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, MC114-36, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: tamipb@physics.mcgill.ca. Received: 2 August 2011; in revised form: 24 September 2011 / Accepted: 9 October 2011 / Published: 17 October 2011 Abstract: Recent experiments on heterostructures composed of two or more films of cuprate superconductors of different oxygen doping levels have shown a remarkable T enhancement (up to ) relative to single compound films. We provide a simple explanation of the enhancement which arises naturally from a collection of experimental works. We show that the enhancement could be caused by a structural change in the lattice, namely an increase in the distance of the apical oxygen from the copper-oxygen plane. This increase modifies the effective off-site interaction in the plane which in turn enhances the d-wave superconductivity order parameter. To illustrate this point we study the extended Hubbard model using the fluctuation exchange approximation. Keywords: high T superconductivity; heterostructures; cuprates 1. Introduction The effort to increase the transiti