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Документ Crossover from dirty to clean superconducting limit in dc magnetron-sputtered thin Nb films(Elsevier, 2012-05-11) Dobrovolskiy, O.V.; Huth, M.High-quality Nb (110) thin films with residual resistance ratios up to 60 and critical temperatures Tc≈9.27 K have been prepared by conventional dc-magnetron sputtering on α-Al2O3 by careful selection of the sputtering conditions. This allowed for a systematic study of the influence of the growth rate on the structural quality and the superconducting properties of the films. The optimized growth conditions were revealed at the substrate temperature Ts=850 °C, Ar pressure Ps=0.4 Pa, and the growth rate g≃0.5 nm/s. The results of the films' structural characterization by X-ray diffraction, reflection high-energy electron diffraction, and atomic force microscopy are presented. In terms of the electron mean free path l and the superconducting coherence length ξ, deduced from the magneto-resistivity data, the clean superconducting limit (l>ξ) is realized in the high-purity films. For comparison, in impure Nb films sputtered at room temperature while keeping the rest of the sputtering parameters unvaried, the opposite dirty limit (ξ≳l) ensues. The merits of these findings are discussed in the context of the demands of present-day fluxonics devices regarding the normal-state and flux-flow properties of superconducting films they are made of.Документ Determination of coordinate dependence of a pinning potential from a microwave experiment with vortices(LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS, 2013-02) Dobrovolskiy, O.V.; V. A. Shklovskij, V.A.The measurement of the complex impedance response accompanied by power absorption P(x) in the radiofrequency and microwave ranges represents a most popular experimental method for the investigation of pinning mechanisms and vortex dynamics in type-II superconductors. In the theory, the pinning potential (PP) well for a vortex must be a priori specified in order to subsequently analyze the measured data. We have theoretically solved the inverse problem at T¼0K and exemplify how the coordinate dependence of a PP can be determined from a set of experimental curves P(xjj0) measured at subcritical dc currents 0Документ Material composition – Pinning strength correlation in Nb thin films with focused ion beam-milled washboard nanostructures(Physica C, 2013-03-29) Dobrovolskiy, O.V.; Begun, Evgenia; Huth, M.; Shklovskij, V.A.An analysis of the interrelated changes in the material composition and the pinning strength in nanostructured Nb (110) thin films is presented. The nanopatterns were prepared by focused ion beam milling of an array of uniaxial grooves. They induce a washboard-like pinning potential landscape for vortices in the mixed state. By applying different magnetic fields, the most likely pinning sites along which the flux lines move through the samples have been selected. By this, either the background isotropic pinning of the pristine film or the enhanced isotropic pinning originating from the nanoprocessing has been probed. The enhanced pinning strength in the processed films has been found to correlate with the content of Ga implanted into the films during the nanopatterning.Документ Noise-Assisted Microwave Up-conversion by Vortices in Thin-Film Superconductors with a dc-Biased Washboard Pinning Potential(Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012, 2012-12-20) Shklovskij, V.A.; Dobrovolskiy, O.V.; Huth, M.So far the main theoretical basis for understanding and optimization of the microwave properties of vortices in type II superconductors has been relying upon the Coffey–Clem (CC) approach for the linear impedance at nonzero temperature. However, the CC model does not account for the non-linear response and the possibility to control it by changing the value of the dc transport current in a superconducting sample. For this reason, we have exactly solved the Langevin equation for the two-dimensional nonlinear vortex dynamics in a dc bias-tilted cosine pinning potential in the presence of an ac current of arbitrary amplitude and frequency ω and have, thereby, substantially generalized the CC results. In this work we analyze the behavior of the non-linear response on kω-frequency in a wide range of dc and ac current densities, ω, and temperature. The kω- response is found to depend strongly on all these parameters, as exemplified for the third-harmonic (k = 3) transformation coefficient Z3. The parametric window for the most enhanced up-conversion is presented. The predicted effects can be experimentally verified in thin-film superconductors with some pinning potential of the washboard type.