Probable observation of «excitonic» superconductivity in formvar-aluminum sandwiches

The Ginzburg's «generalized jellium» model of the proximity effect in superconductor-dielectric systems is tested against a wide phenomenology occurring in formvar-metal multilayers. The experimental evidence gained from enhanced superconductivity, critical magnetic fields, energy gap and pair-breaking parameter values seems to support the hypothesis that a formvar eigenfrequency plays the same role as the Debye frequency in setting up the superconductivity of these systems.