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Electron-phonon energy-relaxation time in thin strongly disordered titanium nitride films
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 2015. Vol. 25. No. 3. P. 1-4.
We have measured the energy relaxation times from the electron bath to the phonon bath in strongly disordered TiN films grown by atomic layer deposition. The measured values of τeph vary from 12 to 91 ns. Over a temperature range from 3.4 to 1.7 K, they follow T-3 temperature dependence, which are consistent with values of τeph reported previously for sputtered TiN films. For the most disordered film, with an effective elastic mean free path of 0.35 nm, we find a faster relaxation and a stronger temperature dependence, which may be an additional indication of the influence of strong disorder on a superconductor.
Arutyunov K., Sedov E., Golokolenov I. et al., Physics of the Solid State, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Vol. 61 No. 9 P. 1559-1562
High-quality aluminum films on GaAs substrates are studied experimentally. The critical temperature of superconductivity is found to increase markedly with decreasing the film thickness. The observed phenomenon is considered as a manifestation of the quantum confinement effect, which affects both the density of states and the electron–phonon interaction. ...
Added: September 14, 2019
Шеин К. В., Заруднева А. А., Емельянова В. О. et al., Физика твердого тела 2020 Т. 62 № 9 С. 1375-1378
At ultra-low temperatures, the transport properties of two types of quasi-one-dimensional superconducting microstructures were studied: thin channels tightly packed in the form of a meander, and chains of superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel contacts. Both types of microstructures demonstrated high values of high-frequency impedance and / or dynamic resistance. The study opens up the possibility of using such ...
Added: July 21, 2020
Croitoru M. D., Shanenko A. A., Vagov A. et al., Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 2016 Vol. 29 P. 605-609
We investigate how the interplay of quantum confinement and level broadening caused by disorder affects superconducting correlations in ultra-small metallic grains. We use the electron-phonon interaction-induced electron mass renormalization and the reduced static-path approximation of the BCS formalism to calculate the critical temperature as a function of the grain size. We show how the strong ...
Added: February 22, 2016
Шеин К. В., Arutyunov K., Zavyalov V., Известия Уфимского научного центра РАН 2021 № 1 С. 106-110
This research was performed using thin superconducting strips in the shape of tightly packed meanders made
of niobium nitride (NbN) ultrathin superconducting strips about 100 nm wide, 5 nm thick and up to 100 μm long.
The structures revealed the effect of high kinetic inductance at temperatures lower than the critical temperature.
Consideration was given to the temperature ...
Added: May 27, 2021
Smirnov K., Вахтомин Ю. Б., Смирнов А. В. et al., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: Физика 2010 Т. 5 № 4 С. 63-67
This work presents the results of the development and fabrication of sensitive and ultrafast detectorsbased on thin film superconducting nanostructures: hot-electron bolometers (HEBs) and visible and infrared superconducting singe photon detectors (SSPDs). The main operational principles of the superconducting devices are presentedas well as the technology of fabrication of the detectors and their main types ...
Added: October 12, 2017
Sezonov Y. I., Ul’din A., Химическая физика 2009 Т. 28 № 12 С. 81-83
Изучен вклад электрон-фононного взаимодействия в проводимость углеродной нанотрубки. Получены аналитические формулы, описывающие зависимость проводимости нанотрубки от температуры, скорости звука, радиуса нанотрубки и линейной концентрации электронов. ...
Added: February 28, 2013
Sidorova M. V., Semenov A., Korneev A. et al., / Cornell University. Series cond-mat "arxiv.org". 2016. No. 1607.07321.
Using amplitude-modulated absorption of sub-THz radiation (AMAR) method, we studied electron-phonon relaxation in thin disordered films of tungsten silicide. We found a response time ~ 800 ps at critical temperature Tc = 3.4 K, which scales as minus 3 in the temperature range from 1.8 to 3.4 K. We discuss mechanisms, which can result in ...
Added: December 6, 2017
Lobanov Y., Shcherbatenko M. L., Shurakov A. et al., Optics Letters 2014 Vol. 39 No. 6 P. 1429-1432
We report on the development of a highly sensitive optical receiver for heterodyne IR spectroscopy at the communication wavelength of 1.5 μm (200 THz) by use of a superconducting hot-electron bolometer. The results are important for the resolution of narrow spectral molecular lines in the near-IR range for the study of astronomical objects, as well ...
Added: February 24, 2016
Pavel V. Dolganov, Kats E., Dolganov V. et al., Soft Matter 2018 Vol. 14 P. 7174-7179
In this paper we report on observations of unusual linear defects forming spontaneously in polar freestanding smectic-C* films near the temperatures of thinning transitions. At high temperature a periodic structure of defects becomes the ground state of the system. We found that the defects are characterized by continuous rotation of the molecular orientation with a ...
Added: November 21, 2019
Gayduchenko I., Kardakova A., Fedorov G. E. et al., Journal of Applied Physics 2015 Vol. 118 No. 19 P. 194303-1-194303-9
Demand for efficient terahertz radiation detectors resulted in intensive study of the asymmetric carbon nanostructures as a possible solution for that problem. It was maintained that photothermoelectric effect under certain conditions results in strong response of such devices to terahertz radiation even at room temperature. In this work, we investigate different mechanisms underlying the response ...
Added: February 19, 2016
Lobanov Y., Shcherbatenko M., Finkel M. I. et al., IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 2015 Vol. 25 No. 3 P. 1-4
Traditionally, hot-electron-bolometer (HEB) mixers are employed for THz and “super-THz” heterodyne detection. To explore the near-IR spectral range, we propose a fiber-coupled NbN film based HEB mixer. To enhance the incident-light absorption, a quasi-antenna consisting of a set of parallel stripes of gold is used. To study the antenna effect on the mixer performance, we ...
Added: October 15, 2015
Chaika A. N., Bozhko S. I., Sveklo I. et al., Scripta Materialia 2021 Vol. 194
We have studied the solid state dewetting of ten monolayer sthick Ag film deposited on periodicall ypatterned Si(557) surface. The annealing of the system in the ultra-high vacuum at the temperatures between 300 and 400°C resulted in full agglomeration of the film and formation of faceted single crystalline Ag nanoparticles exhibiting bimodal size distribution.We demonstrated ...
Added: December 10, 2020
Муслимов А. Э., Буташин А. В., Михайлов В. И. et al., Кристаллография 2015 Т. 60 № 64 С. 630-633
We report the results of comparative study of the structure of tellurium films obtained by crystallization from the gas phase on substrates of sapphire single crystals and mica (Muscovite). ...
Added: March 12, 2015
Duarte E. C., Sardella E., Teixeira Saraiva T. et al., Working papers by Cornell University. Series cond-mat.soft "arxiv.org" ( 2022
The presence of magnetic fields and/or transport currents can cause penetration of vortices in superconductors. Their motion leads to dissipation and resistive state arises, which in turn strongly affects the performance of superconducting devices such as single-photon and single-electron detectors. Therefore, an understanding of the dissipation mechanisms in mesoscopic superconductors is not only of fundamental ...
Added: November 8, 2022
Ferrari S., Kahl O., Kovalyuk V. et al., Applied Physics Letters 2015 Vol. 106 P. 151101-1-151101-5
We investigate single- and multi-photon detection regimes of superconducting nanowire detectors embedded in silicon nitride nanophotonic circuits. At near-infrared wavelengths, simultaneous detection of up to three photons is observed for 120 nm wide nanowires biased far from the critical current, while narrow nanowires below 100 nm provide efficient single photon detection. A theoretical model is proposed to ...
Added: October 15, 2015
V.V.Lebedev, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 2019 Vol. 100 No. 2 P. 022705
We explain theoretical peculiarities of the smectic-A–hexatic-B equilibrium phase coexistence in a finite-temperature range recently observed experimentally in free-standing smectic films [I. A. Zaluzhnyy et al., Phys. Rev. E 98, 052703 (2018)]. We quantitatively describe this unexpected phenomenon within Landau phase transitions theory assuming that the film state is close to a tricritical point. We ...
Added: November 20, 2019
T. Karabassov, A.A. Golubov, Silkin V. M. et al., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2021 Vol. 103 P. 224508-1-224508-9
Superconducting hybrid structures with topological order and induced magnetization offer a promising way to realize fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, the effect of the interplay between magnetization and the property of the topological insulator surface, otherwise known as spin-momentum locking on the superconducting proximity effect, still remains to be investigated. We relied on the quasiclassical self-consistent ...
Added: June 4, 2021
Shurakov A., Lobanov Y., Goltsman G., Superconductor Science and Technology 2015 Vol. 29 No. 2 P. 023001
The discovery of hot-electron phenomena in a thin superconducting film in the last century was followed by numerous experimental studies of its appearance in different materials aiming for a better understanding of the phenomena and consequent implementation of terahertz detection systems for practical applications. In contrast to the competitors such as superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junctions and ...
Added: February 19, 2016
Семенов А. В., Девятов И. А., Третьяков И. В. et al., Журнал радиоэлектроники 2011 № 11
Nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau equation for dirty supercondicting 1D wire is derived in the limit of high magnetic field. ...
Added: October 12, 2017
Smirnov K., Vachtomin Y., Divochiy A. et al., Applied Physics Express 2015 Vol. 8 No. 2 P. 022501-1-022501-4
We found that background radiation limits the dark count rates of superconducting single photon detectors coupled to standard single mode optical fibers to a minimum level when the source temperature of the photons is close to 300 K. We measured this level to be 103 cps, which was confirmed by a theoretical analysis of the ...
Added: October 15, 2015
Antipov A., Seleznev V., Vakhtomin Y. et al., IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) 2020 Vol. 781 No. 1 P. 012011-1-012011-5
Spectral characteristics of WSi and NbN superconducting single-photon detectors with different surface resistance and width of nanowire strips have been investigated in the wavelength range of 1.3-2.5 µm. WSi structures with narrower strips demonstrated better performance for detection of single photons in longer wavelength range. The difference in normalized photon count rate for such structures ...
Added: December 10, 2020
Korneev Alexander, Korneeva Y., Manova N. et al., IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 2013 Vol. 23 No. 3 P. 2201204
In this paper, we present our approaches to the development of fiber-coupled superconducting single photon detectors with enhanced photon absorption. For such devices we have measured detection efficiency in wavelength range from 500 to 2000 nm. The best fiber coupled devices exhibit detection efficiency of 44.5% at 1310 nm wavelength and 35.5% at 1550 nm ...
Added: March 7, 2014
Andrew G. Semenov, Zaikin A., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2015 Vol. 91 No. 2 P. 024505-1-024505-10
We demonstrate that in sufficiently long diffusive superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) junctions dc Josephson current is exponentially suppressed by electron-electron interactions down to zero temperature. This suppression is caused by the effect of Cooper pair dephasing which occurs in the normal metal and defines a new fundamental length scale Lφ in the problem. This length is fully consistent with that derived ...
Added: March 11, 2015
Andrew G. Semenov, Zaikin A., Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2013 Vol. 88 No. 5 P. 054505-1-054505-10
We investigate the effect of interacting quantum phase slips on persistent current and its fluctuations in ultrathin superconducting nanowires and nanorings pierced by the external magnetic flux. We derive the effective action for these systems and map the original problem onto an effective sine-Gordon theory on torus. We evaluate both the flux dependent persistent current ...
Added: February 9, 2015