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Transmission electron microscopy on interface engineered superconducting thin films
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Abstract
Transmission electron microscopy is used to evaluate different deposition techniques, which optimize the microstructure and physical properties of superconducting thin films. High-resolution electron microscopy proves that the use of an YBa2Cu2Ox buffer layer can avoid a variable interface configuration in YBa2Cu3O7-delta thin films grown on SrTiO3. The growth can also be controlled at an atomic level by, using sub-unit cell layer epitaxy, which results in films with high quality and few structural defects. Epitaxial strain in Sr0.85La0.15CuO2 infinite layer thin films influences the critical temperature of these films, as well as the microstructure. Compressive stress is released by a modulated or a twinned microstructure, which eliminates superconductivity. On the other hand, also tensile strain seems to lower the critical temperature of the infinite layer.
Language
English
Source (journal)
IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity / IEEE [New York, N.Y.] - New York, N.Y.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : 2003
ISSN
1051-8223
DOI
10.1109/TASC.2003.812023
Volume/pages
13 :2:3 (2003) , p. 2834-2837
ISI
000184242400101
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