Critical current of a superconductor measured via injection of spin polarized carriers

Details Critical current of a superconductor measured via injection of spin polarized carriers Critical current of a superconductor measured via injection of spin polarized carriers

2000-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0002377v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/12/48/309

In this paper we report a direct evidence of the suppression of critical current due to pair-breaking in a superconducting micro-bridge when the measurement is carried out by injecting spin polarised carriers instead of normal electrons. A thin layer of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 was used as the source of spin polarised carriers. The micro-bridge was formed on the DyBa2Cu3O7-d thin film by photo-lithographic techniques. The design of our spin-injection device allowed us to inject spin-polarised carriers from the La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 layer directly to the DyBa2Cu3O7- d micro-bridge (without any insulating buffer layer) making it possible to measure the critical current when polarised electrons alone are injected into the superconductor. Our results confirm the role of polarised carriers in breaking the Cooper pairs in the superconductor.

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