Fabrication of superconducting nanowires from ultrathin MgB{sub 2} films via focused ion beam milling
- Applied Superconductivity Center and State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
High quality superconducting nanowires were fabricated from ultrathin MgB{sub 2} films by a focused ion beam milling technique. The precursor MgB{sub 2} films in 10 nm thick were grown on MgO substrates by using a hybrid physical-chemical vapor deposition method. The nanowires, in widths of about 300-600 nm and lengths of 1 or 10 μm, showed high superconducting critical temperatures (T{sub c}’s) above 34 K and narrow superconducting transition widths (ΔT{sub c}’s) of 1-3 K. The superconducting critical current density J{sub c} of the nanowires was above 5 × 10{sup 7} A/cm{sup 2} at 20 K. The high T{sub c}, narrow ΔT{sub c}, and high J{sub c} of the nanowires offered the possibility of making MgB{sub 2}-based nano-devices such as hot-electron bolometers and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with high operating temperatures at 15-20 K.
- OSTI ID:
- 22454463
- Journal Information:
- AIP Advances, Vol. 5, Issue 2; Other Information: (c) 2015 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 2158-3226
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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