Soft Nanostructuring of YBCO Josephson Junctions by Phase Separation
Journal article, 2010

We have developed a new method to fabricate biepitaxial YBa2Cu3O7-delta (YBCO) Josephson junctions at the nanoscale allowing junctions widths down to 100 nm and simultaneously avoiding the typical damage in grain boundary interfaces due to conventional patterning procedures By using the competition between the superconducting YBCO and the insulating Y-2 BaCuO5 phases during film growth we formed nanometer sized grain boundary junctions in the insulating Y2BaCuO5 matrix as confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy Electrical transport measurements give clear indications that we are close to probing the intrinsic properties of the grain boundaries.

yttrium barium copper oxide

temperature

nanoSQUID

High

nanopatterning

devices

soft

superconductor

thin-films

junction

critical

nanojunctions

t-c

grain boundary

Author

David Gustafsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics

Henrik Pettersson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Microscopy and Microanalysis

Beniamino Iandolo

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2)

Eva Olsson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Microscopy and Microanalysis

Thilo Bauch

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics

Floriana Lombardi

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Quantum Device Physics

Nano Letters

1530-6984 (ISSN) 1530-6992 (eISSN)

Vol. 10 12 4824-4829

Subject Categories

Physical Sciences

DOI

10.1021/nl103311a

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