Improved Nanopatterning for YBCO Nanowires Approaching the Depairing Current
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2013

An improved nanopatterning procedure has been developed to obtain YBa2Cu3O7-x nanowires with cross-sections as small as 50 x 50 nm(2), protected by an Au capping layer. To probe the effective role of the Au protecting layer, we have measured the current-voltage characteristics and the resistive transition in temperature of the nanowires. Critical current densities up to 108 A/cm(2) have been achieved at T = 4.2 K, approaching the theoretical depairing current limit. The resistance, measured as a function of temperature close to T-c, has been fitted with a thermal activated phase slip model, including the effect of the gold layer. The extracted values of the superconducting coherence length and of the London penetration depth give current densities consistent with the measured ones. These results cannot be achieved with nanowires without the Au capping layer.

phase slips

superconducting nanostructures

High-temperature superconductors

nanofabrication

Författare

Riccardo Arpaia

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Shahid Nawaz

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Floriana Lombardi

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

Thilo Bauch

Chalmers, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

1051-8223 (ISSN) 15582515 (eISSN)

Vol. 23 3 1101505

Ämneskategorier

Subatomär fysik

DOI

10.1109/tasc.2013.2247454

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