Synthesis and Properties of Ultra-Thin YBa 2 Cu 3 O7 and YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 /La 2-x Sr x CuO 4 Multilayers

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SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF ULTRA-THIN YBa2Cu3O7 AND YBa 2 Cu30 7 /La2 .xSrxCuO 4 MULTILAYERS C.B. EOM, S.K. STREIFFER, J.Z. SUN, K.YAMAMOTO, S.S. LADERMAN*, J.C. BRAVMAN, and T.H. GEBALLE Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 *Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA94304 ABSTRACT Using our standard single target off-axis sputter deposition procedure[I], ultra-thin YBa2Cu 3 O 7 superconducting films were made in-situ. We have studied the thickness dependence of superconducting properties (Tc, Jc) from 20 to 5000A. Tc starts degrading below 125A and falls to 50 K for the 30 A film. Jc drops linearly with decreasing thickness below 1000A.

We have grown YBa2Cu3O7/La2.xSrxCuO4 superconducting thin film multilayers in-situ by the same process. The modulation wavelength of the multilayers ranged from 45A to 2000A. X-ray diffraction and cross sectional TEM confirm the superlattice periodicity. The superconducting transition temperature drops in much the same way as the single layer ultra-thin films. Both the critical current density and its magnetic field dependence decrease as the modulation wavelength decreases.

We report results on ultra-thin YBa 2 Cu 30 7 (YBCO) and YBa2Cu 3O7 /La2_,SrxCuO4 (YBCO/LSCO) multilyered thin films grown in-situ using an off-axis single target magnetron sputtering technique[1 ] that reproducibly exhibit novel physical and materials properties. In order to increase our understanding of the growth mechanism and the effect of interfaces and proximity layers we have undertaken a study of ultra-thin and multilayered films. We have investigated the structural, normal state and superconducting properties. Substrates were placed on the side of a planar magnetron gun in such a way as to obtain a large area of film with the same composition as the target. The superconducting and structural properties of the single layer YBCO films have been described in a previous report. 11 ] The sputtering geometry and sputtering parameters for the multilayers are similar to the standard offaxis procedure except we now use two sputter guns and a computer controlled rotating substrate block. The sputtering atmosphere consisted of 10-60mTorr 02 and 40 mTorr Ar. The rf-power (125 W) on the sputter guns generated a self-bias of 50V for YBCO and 125V for LSCO, which gave a deposition rate of 0.2-0.5 A/sec depending on the pressure. Film thicknesses varied from 20 to 5000

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The substrate block temperature was held between 640-720 C.

Substrate materials were SrTiO3(100), LaAIO3(100), and MgO(100). The x-values of 0 and 0.15 were used for the La2.xSrxCuO4 part. Fig. 1. shows the resistive transition of YBCO thin films of various thickness on MgO(100) substrates.

Although Tc starts degrading below 125

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temperature of 30 A film was still 50 *K. Resistivities and transition widths also increase with decreasing thickness below 125 A. We have measured critical current densities by a vibrating sample magnetometer at 4.2 K in

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