Review of the superconducting properties of MgB2

C Buzea, T Yamashita - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
This review paper illustrates the main normal and superconducting state properties of
magnesium diboride, a material known since the early 1950s but only recently discovered to …

MgB2 thin films by hybrid physical–chemical vapor deposition

XX Xi, AV Pogrebnyakov, SY Xu, K Chen, Y Cui… - Physica C …, 2007 - Elsevier
Hybrid physical–chemical vapor deposition (HPCVD) has been the most effective technique
for depositing MgB2 thin films. It generates high magnesium vapor pressures and provides a …

In situ epitaxial MgB2 thin films for superconducting electronics

X Zeng, AV Pogrebnyakov, A Kotcharov, JE Jones… - Nature materials, 2002 - nature.com
The newly discovered 39-K superconductor MgB2 holds great promise for superconducting
electronics. Like the conventional superconductor Nb, MgB2 is a phonon-mediated …

MgB2 Thin Films

XX Xi - Frontiers in Superconducting Materials, 2005 - Springer
Magnesium diboride, MgB2, which was discovered to be a superconductor with a transition
temperature c of 39 K in 2YY1 [1], shows a unique property of being a clear example of a …

In situ growth of superconducting thin films with preferential orientation by molecular-beam epitaxy

W Jo, JU Huh, T Ohnishi, AF Marshall… - Applied physics …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We report the synthesis of superconducting MgB 2 thin films grown in situ by molecular-
beam epitaxy. Mg-rich fluxes are deposited with B flux by electron-beam evaporation onto c …

Synthesis and properties of c-axis oriented epitaxial thin films

SD Bu, DM Kim, JH Choi, J Giencke… - Applied Physics …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We report the growth and properties of epitaxial MgB 2 thin films on (0001) Al 2 O 3
substrates. The MgB 2 thin films were prepared by depositing boron films via radio …

Highly crystallized as-grown smooth and superconducting films by molecular-beam epitaxy

AJM Van Erven, TH Kim, M Muenzenberg… - Applied physics …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We have investigated the growth of superconductive thin films of magnesium diboride (MgB
2) by molecular-beam epitaxy. A Si (111) substrate with a seed layer of MgO was used for …

Effect of two bands on critical fields in thin films with various resistivity values

V Ferrando, P Manfrinetti, D Marré, M Putti, I Sheikin… - Physical Review B, 2003 - APS
Upper critical fields of four MgB 2 thin films were measured up to 28 T at Grenoble High
Magnetic Field Laboratory. The films were grown by pulsed laser deposition and showed …

Growth of Epitaxial MgB2 Thick Films with Columnar Structures by Using HPCVD

WK Seong, JY Huh, WN Kang, JW Kim… - Chemical Vapor …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Epitaxial MgB2 thick films are grown on Al2O3 substrates at 600° C by using the hybrid
physical (HP) CVD technique. In order to obtain a high magnesium vapor pressure around …

Structure of the superconducting gap in MgB2 from point-contact spectroscopy

Y Bugoslavsky, Y Miyoshi, GK Perkins… - Superconductor …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We have studied the structure of the superconducting gap in MgB 2 thin films by means of
point-contact spectroscopy using a gold tip. The films were produced by depositing pure …