Nanopattern-stimulated superconductor-insulator transition in thin TiN films

Details Nanopattern-stimulated superconductor-insulator transition in thin TiN films Nanopattern-stimulated superconductor-insulator transition in thin TiN films

2010-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/1011.1592v1

EPL, 93 (2011) 47002

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/93/47002

We present the results of the comparative study of the influence of disorder on transport properties in continuous and nanoperforated TiN films. We show that nanopatterning turns a thin TiN film into an array of superconducting weak links and stimulates both, the disorder- and magnetic field-driven superconductor-to-insulator transitions, pushing them to lower degree of disorder. We find that nanopatterning enhances the role of the two-dimensional Coulomb interaction in the system transforming the originally insulating film into a more pronounced insulator. We observe magnetoresistance oscillations reflecting collective behaviour of the multiconnected nanopatterned superconducting film in the wide range of temperatures and uncover the physical mechanism of these oscillations as phase slips in superconducting weak link network.

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