Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
1999-04-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
Scientific paper
10.1006/spmi.1999.0758
We correlate transmission electron microscope (TEM) pictures of superconducting In contacts to an AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction with differential conductance spectroscopy performed on the same heterojunction. Metals deposited onto a (100) AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure do not form planar contacts but, during thermal annealing, grow down into the heterostructure along crystallographic planes in pyramid-like `point contacts'. Random surface nucleation and growth gives rise to a different interface transmission for each superconducting point contact. Samples annealed for different times, and therefore having different contact geometry, show variations in $dI/dV$ characteristic of ballistic transport of Cooper pairs, wave interference between different point emitters, and different types of weak localization corrections to Giaever tunneling. We give a possible mechanism whereby the `finite bias anomaly' of Poirier et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett., {\bf 79}, 2105 (1997)), also observed in these samples, can arise by adding the conductance of independent superconducting point emitters in parallel.
Bagwell Philip F.
Chang J. C. P.
Chaudhuri Sambhudas
Crooker B. C.
McInturff D.
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