Reentrant resistive behavior and dimensional crossover in disordered superconducting TiN films

Postolova, Svetlana V.; Mironov, Alexey Yu.; Baklanov, Mikhail R.; Vinokur, Valerii M.; Baturina, Tatyana I.

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01753-w

Title: Reentrant resistive behavior and dimensional crossover in disordered superconducting TiN films

Journal Article · Thu May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01753-w· OSTI ID:1364138

Postolova, Svetlana V. ^[1]; Mironov, Alexey Yu. ^[1]; Baklanov, Mikhail R. ^[2];

^[3]; Baturina, Tatyana I. ^[4]

A. V. Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk (Russia); Novosibirsk State Univ., Novosibirsk (Russia)
North China Univ. of Technology, Beijing (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
A. V. Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk (Russia); Novosibirsk State Univ., Novosibirsk (Russia); Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain)

A reentrant temperature dependence of the normal state resistance often referred to as the N-shaped temperature dependence, is omnipresent in disordered superconductors – ranging from high-temperature cuprates to ultrathin superconducting films – that experience superconductor-to-insulator transition. Yet, despite the ubiquity of this phenomenon its origin still remains a subject of debate. Here we investigate strongly disordered superconducting TiN films and demonstrate universality of the reentrant behavior. We offer a quantitative description of the N-shaped resistance curve. We show that upon cooling down the resistance first decreases linearly with temperature and then passes through the minimum that marks the 3D-2D crossover in the system. In the 2D temperature range the resistance first grows with decreasing temperature due to quantum contributions and eventually drops to zero as the system falls into a superconducting state. As a result, our findings demonstrate the prime importance of disorder in dimensional crossover effects.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Materials Sciences and Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1364138

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322

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