Título: | EFFECT OF INTERFACE ROUGHNESS AND HEAT-TREATMENT OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES OF NB/CO MULTILAYERS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autor: |
LIYING LIU |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colaborador(es): |
IVAN GUILLERMO SOLORZANO NARANJO - Orientador ELISA MARIA BAGGIO SAITTOVITCH - Coorientador |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalogação: | 21/NOV/2012 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notas: |
[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20721&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20721&idi=2 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.20721 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resumo: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In this work we prepared Superconductor(SC)/ferromagnet(FM) Nb/Co
multi-layers with magnetron-sputtering. The main purpose of this work is to
study the effect of different shape of ferromagnetic layers on the superconducting
properties of Nb. We expected that after annealing the Co layers can form
in-plane ordered magnetic nanoparticles and the effect of ordered magnetic
nanoparticles should be very different from randomly oriented nanoparticles
and continues magnetic layers. The microstructures have been investigated
by means of Low Angle X-ray Diffraction (LAXRD), Atomic Force Microscopy
(AFM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). Magnetic and
transport properties have been studied with Physical Property Measurement
System (PPMS) from Quantum Design. The magnetic and transport measurements
show that with increase of the thickness of Co layers the superconducting
transition temperature (Tc) signifficantly increases for the as-prepared samples.
It was reported in the literature that when the thickness of the magnetic layers
is in the range of several nanometers, Tc increases and decreases periodically
with the increase of the thickness of the magnetic layers. In our samples, however,
the thickness of the magnetic layers (several tens nanometers) is much
larger than that range and therefore, cannot be explained within the same
model. We proposed that the roughness of the interface between Co and Nb
layers plays an important role for this behavior. The AFM and LAXRD results
show that the maxim roughness of the interface is in the range of 7 until 10 nm,
which is comparable to the thickness of Co layers (5 until 20 nm). We introduced
one parameter R equal d, where R is the roughness of the interface and d is
the thickness of the magnetic layer, to discuss the effect of the interface on
the superconducting properties of our sample. When delta more 1, the magnetic layer
may be in a non-continues form and only when delta less1 continues magnetic layers
can be formed. Based upon nano-scale observations of interfaces topography
we can understand that the roughness first increases the area of the interface,
which gives stronger proximity effect and, second, enhances the effect of the
stray eld on Tc. This effect depends not only the roughness but also the thickness
of the magnetic layer. It was found out that the parameter determines
the effect of the magnetic layers. The different magnetic properties below Tc
for different samples can also be explained by this model. After annealing, Tc
of the samples decreased and magnetic properties also became worse than the
as-prepared samples. The TEM results show that the Co layers is interconnected
and after annealing there is no indication of interdiffusion between Nb and
Co layers. More measurements are needed to see if the magnetic layers can
induce spontaneous vortices and what the difference is between samples with
ordered and randomly oriented magnetic nano-particles.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|