Xiucheng Wei, Pinku Roy, Zihao Yang, 等. Ultrathin epitaxial NbN superconducting films with high upper critical field grown at low temperature[J]. 材料研究快报(英文), 2021,9(8):336-342.
Xiucheng Wei, Pinku Roy, Zihao Yang, et al. Ultrathin epitaxial NbN superconducting films with high upper critical field grown at low temperature[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2021, 9(8): 336-342.
Xiucheng Wei, Pinku Roy, Zihao Yang, 等. Ultrathin epitaxial NbN superconducting films with high upper critical field grown at low temperature[J]. 材料研究快报(英文), 2021,9(8):336-342.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2021.1919934.
Xiucheng Wei, Pinku Roy, Zihao Yang, et al. Ultrathin epitaxial NbN superconducting films with high upper critical field grown at low temperature[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2021, 9(8): 336-342.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2021.1919934.
Ultrathin epitaxial NbN superconducting films with high upper critical field grown at low temperature
Ultrathin (5–50 nm) epitaxial superconducting niobium nitride (NbN) films were grown on AlN-buffered
c
-plane Al
2
O
3
by an industrial scale physical vapor deposition technique at 400°C. Both X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analysis show high crystallinity of the (111)-oriented NbN films
with a narrow full-width-at-half-maximum of the rocking curve down to 0.030°. The lattice constant decreases with decreasing NbN layer thickness
suggesting lattice strain for films with thicknesses below 20 nm. The superconducting transition temperature
the transition width
the upper critical field
the irreversibility line
and the coherence length are closely correlated to the film thickness.