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Irradiation with electrons is an efficient approach to inducing a largenumber of defects with a minimal impact on the material itself. Analysis of theenergy transfer from an accelerated particle smashing into the crystal latticeshows that only electrons with MeV energies produce point defects in the formof interstitial ions and vacancies that form perfect scattering centers. Here,we investigate the changes in the resistive characteristics of YBCO singlecrystals from the 1-2-3 system after several steps of low-temperatureirradiation with $0.5-2.5$\,MeV electrons and irradiation doses of up to$8.8\times10^{18}$\,cm$^{-2}$. The penetration depth of such electrons is muchlarger than the crystal thickness. We reveal that defects appearing inconsequence of such electron irradiation not only increase the residualresistance, but they affect the phonon spectrum of the system and lower thesuperconducting transition temperature linearly with increase of theirradiation dose. Furthermore, the irradiation-induced defects are distributednon-uniformly, that manifests itself via a broadening of the superconductingtransition. Interestingly, the excess conductivity remains almost unaffectedafter such electron irradiation.

Tuning electric charge scattering in YBCO single crystals via irradiation with MeV electrons