In:
Journal of Applied Physics, AIP Publishing, Vol. 71, No. 4 ( 1992-02-15), p. 1868-1877
Abstract:
Epitaxial thin films of Ba2YCu3O7−x (BYC) were prepared on (001) LaAlO3 single-crystal substrates by metalorganic deposition of metal trifluoroacetate precursors. This is an ex situ process that requires high-temperature annealing in a humid atmosphere to produce stoichiometric BYC thin films. The chemically derived superconducting films were found to have high critical temperatures and high current densities when crystallized under low-oxygen partial pressures. Superconducting films of 70 nm thickness with zero-field critical current densities greater than 5×106 A/cm2 at 77 K and zero resistance at 92 K were prepared by annealing at 780 and 830 °C in 2.5 × 10−4–1 × 10−3 atm oxygen furnace atmospheres. As the film thickness was increased, the superconducting properties and surface smoothness of the films tended to degrade. This behavior was consistent with a microstructural model in which the films are composed of a dense slab of c-axis normal BYC near the film/substrate interface with the overlying material dominated by grains with c-axis in-plane crystallographic orientation. The transport Jc fell to 2–3×106 A/cm2 for films of 200–250-nm thickness annealed at 780 °C in 1 × 10−3 atm oxygen. As the P(O2) was raised to 0.032 atm at 780 °C, for films of the same thickness, the Jc at 77 K decreased to 0.7 × 106–1 × 106 A/cm2 and the Tc(R = 0) dropped to 89 K. Increasing the furnace P(O2) was also found to degrade the crystalline quality of the films, as characterized by ion channeling Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0021-8979
,
1089-7550
Language:
English
Publisher:
AIP Publishing
Publication Date:
1992
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