Vortices in high-performance high-temperature superconductors

WK Kwok, U Welp, A Glatz, AE Koshelev… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The behavior of vortex matter in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) controls the entire
electromagnetic response of the material, including its current carrying capacity. Here, we …

Low temperature scanning electron microscopy of superconducting thin films and Josephson junctions

R Gross, D Koelle - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1994 - iopscience.iop.org
By extending scanning electron microscopy to the temperature regime of liquid helium and
nitrogen a powerful technique for the imaging of the local properties of superconducting thin …

Ion-beam-induced metal-insulator transition in : A mobility edge

JM Valles Jr, AE White, KT Short, RC Dynes, JP Garno… - Physical Review B, 1989 - APS
We have studied the temperature-dependent resistivity and Hall coefficient of epitaxial Y Ba
2 Cu 3 O 7− δ films as a function of ion-beam-induced damage. At low ion fluences the films …

Predictions for impurity-induced suppression in the high-temperature superconductors

RJ Radtke, K Levin, HB Schüttler, MR Norman - Physical Review B, 1993 - APS
We address the question of whether anisotropic superconductivity is compatible with the
evidently weak sensitivity of the critical temperature T c to sample quality in the high-T c …

Critical currents near 106 A cm-2 at 77 K in neutron-irradiated single-crystal YBa2Cu3O7

RB Van Dover, EM Gyorgy, LF Schneemeyer… - Nature, 1989 - nature.com
THE defects in as-grown bulk YBa2Cu3O7 have been shown to act as weak flux pinning
sites, leading to a reversible magnetization1, magnetization decay2 and non-zero …

Irradiation‐induced enhancement of the critical current density of epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7− x thin films

B Roas, B Hensel, G Saemann‐Ischenko… - Applied physics …, 1989 - pubs.aip.org
Thin films of YBa2Cu30 7 _ x have been prepared epitaxially on< 100) SrTi03 by laser
evaporation in a single-step process. The resistivity of the films decreases linearly with …

[HTML][HTML] Superconducting nano Josephson junctions patterned with a focused helium ion beam

EY Cho, YW Zhou, JY Cho, SA Cybart - Applied physics letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We report the fabrication of nanoscale wires and Josephson junctions in 25 nm thick YBa 2
Cu 3 O 7–δ thin films with wire widths as narrow as 50 nm. Our approach utilizes a finely …

High-transition-temperature nanoscale superconducting quantum interference devices directly written with a focused helium ion beam

H Li, H Cai, EY Cho, SJ McCoy, YT Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we present nanoscale superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs)
with dimensions as small as 10 nm from the high-transition-temperature superconductor …

Resistive loss at 10 GHz in c-axis-aligned in-situ-grown films

SS Laderman, RC Taber, RD Jacowitz, JL Moll… - Physical Review B, 1991 - APS
The resistive losses near 10 GHz are measured at 4.2 K for ten c-axis-oriented YBa 2 Cu 3 O
7 thin films deposited in situ on MgO substrates. The losses range from 16±3 μΩ, the lowest …

Thin‐film multilayer interconnect technology for YBa2Cu3O7−x

FC Wellstood, JJ Kingston, J Clarke - Journal of applied physics, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
The construction of microelectronic circuits from high‐transition‐temperature (T c)
superconductors requires techniques for producing thin‐film wires, insulating crossovers …