Junction area dependence of critical current density in Bi-2212 stacked junction
T Kawae; K Inomata; S-J Kim; Y I Latyshev; K Nakajima; T Yamashita; S Kishida; T Hatano
Журнал:
Superconductor Science and Technology
Дата:
2001-12-01
Аннотация:
We report the characteristics of stacked junctions fabricated by the focused ion beam etching method on a Bi-2212 whisker with low carrier concentration. In order to achieve low carrier concentration, the whisker edges were etched and the sample was annealed in 1 atm of flowing Ar at 200 °C for 1 h. A drop of critical current density (J<sub>c</sub>) occurred when junction area (S) was decreased to the submicron range, and then the charging energy of the stack (E<sub>c</sub>) was comparable to Josephson coupling energy (E<sub>J</sub>). The E<sub>c</sub>/E<sub>J</sub>–J<sub>c</sub> curves of the samples were similar to the theoretical curves which explains a fall of J<sub>c</sub> due to Coulomb blockade for low T<sub>C</sub> superconductor. Also, the annealed sample showed high junction resistance and low E<sub>J</sub>, owing to a low carrier concentration by annealing.
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