Superconductivity of bilayer titanium/indium thin film grown on SiO2/Si (001)

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/6/067403

Abstract Bilayer superconducting films with tunable transition temperature (T_c) are a critical ingredient to the fabrication of high-performance transition edge sensors. Commonly chosen materials include Mo/Au, Mo/Cu, Ti/Au, and Ti/Al systems. Here in this work, titanium/indium (Ti/In) bilayer superconducting films are successfully fabricated on SiO₂/Si (001) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The success in the epitaxial growth of indium on titanium is achieved by lowering the substrate temperature to -150℃ during indium evaporation. We measure the critical temperature under a bias current of 10 μA, and obtain different superconducting transition temperatures ranging from 645 mK to 2.7 K by adjusting the thickness ratio of Ti/In. Our results demonstrate that the transition temperature decreases as the thickness ratio of Ti/In increases.

Keywords: titanium/indium thin film molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) proximity effect

Received: 07 February 2017
Revised: 20 March 2018
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PACS:

74.78.-w

(Superconducting films and low-dimensional structures)

Corresponding Authors: Xie-Gang Zhu, Xin-Chun Lai
E-mail: zhuxg02@gmail.com;laixinchun@caep.cn

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Zhao-Hong Mo(莫钊洪), Chao Lu(路超), Yi Liu(刘毅), Wei Feng(冯卫), Yun Zhang(张云), Wen Zhang(张文), Shi-Yong Tan(谭世勇), Hong-Jun Zhang(张宏俊), Chun-Yu Guo(郭春煜), Xiao-Dong Wang(汪小冬), Liang Wang(王亮), Rui-Zhu Yang(杨蕊竹), Zhong-Guo Ren(任忠国), Xie-Gang Zhu(朱燮刚), Zhong-Hua Xiong(熊忠华), Qi An(安琪), Xin-Chun Lai(赖新春) Superconductivity of bilayer titanium/indium thin film grown on SiO₂/Si (001) 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 067403

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