High temperature interfacial superconductivity

Bozovic, Ivan; Logvenov, Gennady; Gozar, Adrian Mihai

Title: High temperature interfacial superconductivity

Patent · Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:1055453

Bozovic, Ivan ^[1]; Logvenov, Gennady ^[2]; Gozar, Adrian Mihai ^[3]

Mount Sinai, NY
Port Jefferson Station, NY
Port Jefferson, NY

High-temperature superconductivity confined to nanometer-scale interfaces has been a long standing goal because of potential applications in electronic devices. The spontaneous formation of a superconducting interface in bilayers consisting of an insulator (La.sub.2CuO.sub.4) and a metal (La.sub.1-xSr.sub.xCuO.sub.4), neither of which is superconducting per se, is described. Depending upon the layering sequence of the bilayers, T.sub.c may be either .about.15 K or .about.30 K. This highly robust phenomenon is confined to within 2-3 nm around the interface. After exposing the bilayer to ozone, T.sub.c exceeds 50 K and this enhanced superconductivity is also shown to originate from a 1 to 2 unit cell thick interfacial layer. The results demonstrate that engineering artificial heterostructures provides a novel, unconventional way to fabricate stable, quasi two-dimensional high T.sub.c phases and to significantly enhance superconducting properties in other superconductors. The superconducting interface may be implemented, for example, in SIS tunnel junctions or a SuFET.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-98CH10886

Assignee:: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, NY)

Patent Number(s):: 8,204,564

Application Number:: US patent applicaiton 12/264,742

OSTI ID:: 1055453

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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