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Title: | Superconducting state of very thin Pd films deposited on a diluted insulating EuxSr1-xS ferromagnet | Authors: | Cosceev, Alexandr Suergers, Christoph BOYEN, Hans-Gerd Schweiss, Peter v Loehneysen, Hilbert |
Issue Date: | 2011 | Publisher: | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Source: | PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 83(17) | Abstract: | The electronic transport in very thin Pd films deposited on insulating EuxSr1-xS (0 <= x <= 1) is investigated. The temperature dependent resistance R(T) of films with d(Pd) >= 14 nm shows metallic behavior and a logarithmic increase toward low temperatures characteristic of (anti-)localization and electron-electron interaction effects also observed for Pd films on Si(111). Films with d(Pd) = 7 nm are superconducting below a transition temperature T-c which decreases with increasing Eu concentration from T-c = 0.9 K for x = 0 to T-c < 50 mK for x = 1. The origin of superconductivity in the thin Pd films is presumably due to the formation of an interfacial Pd-S alloy and/or to a charge transfer at the Pd/EuxSr1-xS interface. The decrease of T-c vs x is attributed to the magnetic pair breaking of the ferromagnetic EuxSr1-xS underneath. The R(T) behavior of films with d(Pd) >= 10 nm suggests that these are not superconducting or have a strongly reduced Tc presumably due to the proximity effect of the nonsuperconducting S-free upper part of the Pd film. | Notes: | [Cosceev, Alexandr; Suergers, Christoph; v Loehneysen, Hilbert] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Phys, D-76049 Karlsruhe, Germany. [Cosceev, Alexandr; Suergers, Christoph; v Loehneysen, Hilbert] DFG Ctr Funct Nanostruct, D-76049 Karlsruhe, Germany. [Boyen, Hans-Gerd] Hasselt Univ, Inst Mat Res, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Schweiss, Peter; v Loehneysen, Hilbert] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Festkorperphys, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany. christoph.suergers@kit.edu | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/12024 | ISSN: | 1098-0121 | DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.174516 | ISI #: | 000291005300003 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2012 |
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