Penetration depth and tunneling studies in very thin epitaxial NbN films

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2009-11-21

arxiv.org/abs/0911.4181v4

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 96, 072509 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Modified version with extensive analysis of the KTB transition. One new author added

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3314308

We investigate evolution of the magnetic penetration depth and superconducting energy gap in epitaxial NbN films using a low frequency mutual inductance technique and tunneling spectroscopy using a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The superconducting transition temperature (Tc) for films grown under optimal growth conditions decreases monotonically from 15.87K to 9.16K as the film thickness is decreased from 50nm to 3nm. With decrease in film thickness delta(0) monotonically decreases, whereas lambda(0) monotonically increases. We observe that Tc, lambda(o) and delta(0) are well described by Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory in all films other than the two thinnest ones where we see evidence of the Kosterlitz-Thouless-Berezinski (KTB) transition close to Tc.

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