Proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures
Vortex lattice dynamics has been studied in thin Nb superconducting films sputtered on top of a dense triangular array of V dots with and without an intermediate SiO2 insulating layer. While The insulating layer modifies only slightly The Nb film corrugation, it reduces superconducting commensurabil...
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todo:paper_17426588_v568_n_p_Carreira2023-10-03T16:30:56Z Proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures Carreira, S.J. Bekeris, V. Rosen, Y.J. Monton, C. Schuller, I.K. Calzetta E. Centro Latinoamericano de Fisica (CLAF); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET); International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA); International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP); Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Productiva (MINCYT) Crystal lattices Insulating materials Insulation Low temperature effects Temperature Temperature distribution Vortex flow Critical temperatures Insulating layers Matching fields Parabolic temperature Proximity effects Triangular arrays Vortex dynamics Vortex lattice dynamics Superconducting films Vortex lattice dynamics has been studied in thin Nb superconducting films sputtered on top of a dense triangular array of V dots with and without an intermediate SiO2 insulating layer. While The insulating layer modifies only slightly The Nb film corrugation, it reduces superconducting commensurability effects (CE) substantially. This implies that superconducting commensurability is dominated by proximity effects. Moreover, The HC2 (T) phase diagram of The sample without an insulating layer shows a parabolic temperature dependence near TC and critical temperature oscillations with The periodicity of The matching field. Therefore, strong proximity effects locally suppress superconductivity leading to a superconducting mesh. When The proximity effect is decreased by an insulating layer, HC2(T) follows The expected linear T dependence. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Fil:Bekeris, V. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. CONF info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_17426588_v568_n_p_Carreira |
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Crystal lattices Insulating materials Insulation Low temperature effects Temperature Temperature distribution Vortex flow Critical temperatures Insulating layers Matching fields Parabolic temperature Proximity effects Triangular arrays Vortex dynamics Vortex lattice dynamics Superconducting films |
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Crystal lattices Insulating materials Insulation Low temperature effects Temperature Temperature distribution Vortex flow Critical temperatures Insulating layers Matching fields Parabolic temperature Proximity effects Triangular arrays Vortex dynamics Vortex lattice dynamics Superconducting films Carreira, S.J. Bekeris, V. Rosen, Y.J. Monton, C. Schuller, I.K. Calzetta E. Centro Latinoamericano de Fisica (CLAF); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET); International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA); International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP); Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Productiva (MINCYT) Proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures |
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Crystal lattices Insulating materials Insulation Low temperature effects Temperature Temperature distribution Vortex flow Critical temperatures Insulating layers Matching fields Parabolic temperature Proximity effects Triangular arrays Vortex dynamics Vortex lattice dynamics Superconducting films |
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Vortex lattice dynamics has been studied in thin Nb superconducting films sputtered on top of a dense triangular array of V dots with and without an intermediate SiO2 insulating layer. While The insulating layer modifies only slightly The Nb film corrugation, it reduces superconducting commensurability effects (CE) substantially. This implies that superconducting commensurability is dominated by proximity effects. Moreover, The HC2 (T) phase diagram of The sample without an insulating layer shows a parabolic temperature dependence near TC and critical temperature oscillations with The periodicity of The matching field. Therefore, strong proximity effects locally suppress superconductivity leading to a superconducting mesh. When The proximity effect is decreased by an insulating layer, HC2(T) follows The expected linear T dependence. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. |
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Carreira, S.J. Bekeris, V. Rosen, Y.J. Monton, C. Schuller, I.K. Calzetta E. Centro Latinoamericano de Fisica (CLAF); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET); International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA); International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP); Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Productiva (MINCYT) |
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Carreira, S.J. Bekeris, V. Rosen, Y.J. Monton, C. Schuller, I.K. Calzetta E. Centro Latinoamericano de Fisica (CLAF); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET); International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA); International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP); Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Productiva (MINCYT) |
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Carreira, S.J. |
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Proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures |
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Proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures |
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Proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures |
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Proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures |
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Proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures |
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proximity effects and vortex dynamics in superconducting heterostructures |
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