Texture Studies on Borocarbide Thin Films

2005 ◽  
Vol 495-497 ◽  
pp. 1425-1430 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Subba Rao ◽  
R. Tamm ◽  
S.C. Wimbush ◽  
G.H. Cao ◽  
C.G. Oertel ◽  
...  

Epitaxial thin films of the superconducting borocarbide compound YNi2B2C were grown on single crystal MgO (100) substrates without and with Y2O3 buffer layer using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). In both cases YNi2B2C grows with [001] normal to the substrate. However, the in-plane texture depends on the starting condition. For samples without buffer layer, oxygen from the substrate diffuses into the film and forms an Y2O3 reaction layer at the interface. As a consequence, a deficiency of Y is generated giving rise to the formation of secondary phases. On the other hand, using an artificial Y2O3 buffer layer secondary phases are suppressed. The texture of the Y2O3 layers determines the texture of the YNi2B2C film. The superconducting properties of the borocarbide films are discussed with respect to texture and phase purity.

2012 ◽  
Vol 1434 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Mele ◽  
K. Matsumoto ◽  
H. Nagayoshi ◽  
K. Fujita ◽  
Y. Yoshida ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTEpitaxial Fe-Te-Se thin films were deposited by pulsed laser deposition at 250 ~ 600 °C on SrTiO3 (100, STO), MgO (100), LaAlO3 (100, LAO) and CaF2 (100) single crystal substrates. Best superconducting film was grown on CaF2: Tconset = 20.0 K and Tc0 = 16.18 K with Tdep = 300 °C, 45000 pulses, 3 Hz. The critical current density Jc at 4.2 K was 0.41×106A/cm2 at 0 T and 0.23×106 A/cm2 at 9 T. Angular dependence of Jc showed broad c-axis correlated peak when B ≥ 3 T.


2013 ◽  
Vol 634-638 ◽  
pp. 2485-2488
Author(s):  
Lin Wang ◽  
Zhen Ping Wu ◽  
Yu Cheng Jiang ◽  
Bing Ren ◽  
Jian Huang ◽  
...  

Thin films of perovskite manganite La0.9Hf0.1MnO3 (LHMO) have been grown on (100) SrTiO3 single-crystal substrates with different growth pressures by pulsed laser deposition. The different transport behaviors of films have been fitted by various models. The results clearly demonstrate that oxygen pressure is an efficient way to change the transport behaviors of LHMO films. All the transport behaviors observed in LHMO films can be better fitted by Mott’s variable range hopping model than the other two models.


2003 ◽  
Vol 786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takamitsu Higuchi ◽  
Koichi Morozumi ◽  
Setsuya Iwashita ◽  
Masaya Ishida ◽  
Tatsuya Shimoda

ABSTRACTPseudocubic SrRuO3 (100) epitaxial thin films were fabricated on Si (100) with a YBa2Cu3Ox / CeO2 / YSZ (yttria-stabilized-zirconia) triple buffer layer ∼ 14 nm thick by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) revealed that the first buffer layer of YSZ (100) was epitaxially grown on naturally oxidized Si (100) substrates with the process condition of PB (base pressure) = 1×10-Torr, PO2 (oxygen partial pressure) = 5×10- Torr, and Ts (substrate temperature) = 700 °C. Higher deposition rate of YSZ in the range of 0 ∼ 0.6 nm/min brought about better crystallinity with a smaller value of a full-width at half maximum (FWHM) in the YSZ (200) rocking curve. Subsequent deposition of CeO2, YBa2Cu3Ox, and SrRuO3 resulted in an SrRuO3 (100) epitaxial thin film exhibiting good crystallinity with FWHM = 1.7° in the SrRuO3 (200) rocking curve.


2005 ◽  
Vol 133 (10) ◽  
pp. 641-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yimin Cui ◽  
Chunchang Wang ◽  
Bisong Cao

2004 ◽  
Vol 201 (10) ◽  
pp. 2385-2389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanwei Ma ◽  
M. Guilloux-Viry ◽  
O. Pena ◽  
C. Moure

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (04) ◽  
pp. 539-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
QUANHE BAO ◽  
CHUANZHONG CHEN ◽  
LUBIN CHEN ◽  
DIANGANG WANG ◽  
TINGQUAN LEI ◽  
...  

A modified surface layer of hydroxyapatite (HA) target was observed before and after pulsed laser deposition. Two types of HA targets were used for laser ablation. We observed that the surface morphology of the target has a very fine compacted grain structure and presents many irregularities with some microroughness and microporosity before laser ablation. The laser ablated regions can be divided into two areas: one area is porous and rough but the other is dense and smooth. The percentage of particles in the films was high for the films produced with targets that were sintered at 1200°C.


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