“…There are several papers published dealing with the treatment of oxide based HTS superconductors with different kind of plasma or irradiation to probe the fundamental characteristics of superconductors or in order to improve the overall conducting properties, primarily the superconducting properties. The irradiation experiments includes diverse radiation, for instance electromagnetic radiation with short wavelengths like Y-irradiation, [41] X-ray irradiation, [70,71] radiation in the visible optical spectrum, [35,36,44] or radiation with wavelengths in the NIR or IR [72,73] region. In addition scientists carried out particle irradiation using beams consisting of electrons, [42,[74][75][76] ions, [37,74,[77][78][79] protons, [80,81] and neutrons.…”