Temperature dependence of the dielectric function of laser deposited YBCO thin film at 3392nm
- Queen`s Univ., Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom). Dept. of Pure and Applied Physics
The authors have excited surface plasmons in an YBCO thin film at different temperatures using attenuated total reflection of light. The 300nm thick c-axis film was fabricated using pulsed laser deposition onto an MgO (100) substrate with 248nm KrF excimer radiation. Critical temperature of the film was 89.6K and its roughness, as shown by atomic force microscopy, 20nm rms, without droplets over areas of 10 {micro}m x 10{micro}m. The sample was mounted in Otto geometry on a cooled stage which allowed the temperature to be varied between 300K and 70K. An infrared HeNe laser at 3,392nm was used to excite the surface plasmons. The dielectric function of the film was determined between room temperature and 80K. The imaginary part of the dielectric function decreased substantially with reduction in temperature. Results obtained were: {var_epsilon}{sub r} = {minus}24.1 + 0.0013T and {var_epsilon}{sub i} = 7.7 + 0.067T where T is the temperature in kelvin. The ratio {var_epsilon}{sub i}{sup 300}/{var_epsilon}{sub i}{sup 80} at 2.13 is less than the resistance ratio R{sup 300}/R{sup 80} at 2.81. An explanation is offered in terms of two temperature independent mechanisms operative at optical frequencies: enhanced Rayleigh scattering of surface plasmons at grain boundaries and intraband/interband transitions. The real part of the dielectric function, {var_epsilon}{sub r}, was found to be only slightly temperature dependent. It was, however, highly sample dependent when comparison was made with the results of other films, a feature attributed to surface and grain boundary contamination.
- OSTI ID:
- 549854
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960163-; ISBN 0-8194-2070-0; TRN: 98:000476
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Photonics West `96: conference on quantum well and superlattice physics VI, San Jose, CA (United States), 27 Jan - 2 Feb 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Spectroscopic studies of superconductors. Part B: Tunneling, photoelectron, and other spectra; Bozovic, I.; Marel, D. van der [eds.]; PB: 370 p.; Proceedings/SPIE, Volume 2696
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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