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Crystallographic structure and superconductive properties of Nb‐Ti films with an artificially layered structure

 

作者: Noboru Sato,  

 

期刊: Journal of Applied Physics  (AIP Available online 1990)
卷期: Volume 67, issue 12  

页码: 7493-7506

 

ISSN:0021-8979

 

年代: 1990

 

DOI:10.1063/1.345809

 

出版商: AIP

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

Artificially layered niobium‐titanium (Nb‐Ti) films with various thickness ratios (3/1–1/3) and periodicities (2–100 A˚) are made in an argon or in a mixed argon/nitrogen atmosphere by a dc magnetron sputtering method. Films with small periodicities (less than 30 A˚) have an artificial superlattice structure (ASL) with crystallographic coherence between constituent layers, where Nb and Ti grow epitaxially on the closest planes. The crystallographic structures of films are bcc with the (110) plane parallel to the film for films with the same or a thicker Nb layer than a Ti layer, and hcp with the (001) plane parallel to the film for films with a thinner Nb layer than a Ti layer. Films with large periodicities have an artificial superstructure (ASS) with only periodic stacking of constituent layers. Films deposited in the Ar/N atmosphere also have the artificially layered structures of ASL or ASS. The artificially layered structure is thermally stable at temperatures up to 500 °C. The superconducting properties of the films depend strongly on the periodicity and thickness ratio of Nb and Ti layers. The dependence of the transition temperature on the periodicity and thickness ratio is qualitatively explained by a proximity effect with a three‐region model. Films with periodicities less than 20 A˚, composed of the same or a thicker Nb layer than a Ti layer, show high transition temperatures (above 9.3 K). The highestTcof about 13.6 K is obtained in the film composed of monatomic layers of constituents deposited in an Ar atmosphere including 30 vol % N.

 

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