Vortex Matter in Confined Superconductors and Mesoscopic Hybrid Heterostructures. Final report
This program studied the fundamental features that underlie the behavior of hybrid ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures both in the regime of magnetic coupling and proximity effect. In ferromagnet/superconductor hybrid structures, the source of superconducting correlations and ferromagnetism are spatially separated. Therefore, the interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity results in physical effects that are not easily observed in bulk superconductors and allows to tune the local superconducting and vortex properties, realizing, thus, a new class of materials. In the case of proximity effect the ferromagnet and the superconductor are in contact and leakage of superconducting pairs is allowed into the ferromagnetic layer. Typically, the decay length for the superconducting pair correlations in the ferromagnet is of the order of one nanometer due to the typically large ferromagnetic exchange field. However, a suitable magnetic structure in the ferromagnetic material can be used to align the spins of the superconducting pairs allowing much longer penetration of superconductivity in the magnetic material. These superconducting pairs with aligned spins can carry spin and provide the basis for superconducting spintronics devices. In the case of magnetic coupling the effect of a spatial inhomogeneous stray field produced by the ferromagnet substantially modifies the nucleation of the order parameter in the superconducting layer and can lead to a significant change in the local superconducting properties. Therefore, magnetically coupled planar ferromagnet-superconductor hybrid structures offer new avenues for manipulation of the superconductivity at the nanoscale and convenient means to control vortex dynamics.
- Research Organization:
- Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0004556
- OSTI ID:
- 1735727
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-TEMPLE-0004556; TRN: US2214741
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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