Properties of superconductivity for decoupled ferromagnet/superconductor trilayers and multilayers in Fe/Nb system
Journal
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Journal Volume
304
Journal Issue
1
Date Issued
2006
Author(s)
Abstract
The transition temperature Tc and upper critical field Hc2 of sputtered Fe/Nb trilayers and multilayers have been determined by measurement of electrical resistivity. For a fixed Fe layer thickness, Tc decreases with decreasing Nb thickness up to a critical thickness dNbcrit ≈ 34 nm below which superconductivity vanishes. When the superconducting layers are thin ( dNb < 140 nm ) and decoupled by pair breaking in the ferromagnetic layers, the parallel critical field exhibits nonlinear temperature dependence, revealing a change in the superconducting dimensionality. The strong decrease of Tc with decreasing Nb thickness as well as the temperature dependence of Hc2 can be well described by theoretical model. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The transition temperature Tc and upper critical field Hc2 of sputtered Fe/Nb trilayers and multilayers have been determined by measurement of electrical resistivity. For a fixed Fe layer thickness, Tc decreases with decreasing Nb thickness up to a critical thickness dNbcrit ≈ 34 nm below which superconductivity vanishes. When the superconducting layers are thin ( dNb < 140 nm ) and decoupled by pair breaking in the ferromagnetic layers, the parallel critical field exhibits nonlinear temperature dependence, revealing a change in the superconducting dimensionality. The strong decrease of Tc with decreasing Nb thickness as well as the temperature dependence of Hc2 can be well described by theoretical model. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Type
journal article