Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2008-02-15
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
To appear as a book Chapter in "Superconducting Thin Films: New Research" (ed. Arnold H. Burness, Nova Science, New York, 2008
Scientific paper
In this Chapter we review our latest results on magnetic (AC susceptibility) and transport (resistivity) properties of Pr1.85Ce0.15CuO4 (PCCO) and Sm1.85Ce0.15CuO4 (SCCO) thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition technique. Three main topics of our studies will be covered. We start with a thorough discussion of the pairing symmetry mechanisms in optimally-doped SCCO thin films based on the extracted with high accuracy temperature profiles of penetration depth. In particular, we found that above and below a crossover temperature T*=0.22T_C, our films are best-fitted by a linear and quadratic dependencies, respectively, with physically reasonable values of d-wave node gap parameter and paramagnetic impurity scattering rate. Our next topic is related to the flux distribution in our films. More precisely, we present a comparative study on their pinning ability at low magnetic fields extracted from their AC susceptibilities. Depending on the level of homogeneity of our films, two different types of the irreversibility line have been found. The obtained results are described via the critical-state model taking into account the low-field grain-boundary pinning. And finally, we demonstrate our recent results on the normal state temperature behavior of resistivity R(T) for the high-quality optimally-doped SCCO thin films. In addition to the expected contributions from the electron-phonon and electron-electron scattering processes, we also observed an unusual step-like behavior of R(T) around T=87K which we attributed the to the manifestation of thermal excitations due to spin fluctuations induced by Sm3+ moments through Cu2+-Sm3+ interaction.
Araujo-Moreira Fernando M.
Lanfredi A. J. C.
Sergeenkov Sergei
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