Possible robust insulator-superconductor transition on solid inert gas and other substrates

Details Possible robust insulator-superconductor transition on solid inert gas and other substrates Possible robust insulator-superconductor transition on solid inert gas and other substrates

2000-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011197v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

accepted in Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.63.104502

We present observations of the insulator-superconductor transition in ultrathin films of Bi on amorphous quartz, quartz coated with Ge, and for the first time, solid xenon condensed on quartz. The relative permeability $\epsilon_r$ ranges from 1.5 for Xe to 15 for Ge. Though we find screening effects as expected, the I-S transition is robust, and unmodified by the substrate. The resistance separatrix is found to be close to h/4e^2 and the crossover thickness close to $\rm 25 \AA$ for all substrates. I-V studies and Aslamazov-Larkin analyses indicate superconductivity is inhomogeneous. The transition can be understood in terms of a percolation model.

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