Cooperative behavior and manifestation of dimensional crossover in SISIS-type Nb-based structures

Ivan P. Nevirkovets; J. E. Evetts; Mark G. Blamire

doi:10.1117/12.179174

29 June 1994 Cooperative behavior and manifestation of dimensional crossover in SISIS-type Nb-based structures

Ivan P. Nevirkovets, J. E. Evetts, Mark G. Blamire

Proceedings Volume 2157, Superconducting Superlattices and Multilayers; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179174
Event: OE/LASE '94, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

We have fabricated and investigated three-terminal Nb/Al-AlO_x-Nb/Al-AlO_x-Nb tunnel devices with a thin (approximately equals 13 nm) Nb/Al middle layer. By measuring I-V characteristics and I_c vs. H dependences of the whole device and particular junctions separately, we have demonstrated strong interaction between the junctions. As a result, at V equals 0 the system behaves like a single junction. The pronounced feature of this state is the critical current locking of the junctions, with a `common' critical current larger than the critical currents of the individual junctions. This state can be characterized by identical phase difference distributions for both junctions, and is stable at least for the region of superconducting current and magnetic field values corresponding to the first period of the diffraction pattern of the whole structure. At V equals 0 and some value of magnetic field near to that where critical current of the system first falls to zero, the system undergoes a transition into the 2D state, in which the individual junctions have different phase distributions and behave relatively independently. In a high magnetic field, when many vortices enter the multilayer structure, along with the current locking, there is evidence of phase locking.

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Ivan P. Nevirkovets, J. E. Evetts, and Mark G. Blamire "Cooperative behavior and manifestation of dimensional crossover in SISIS-type Nb-based structures", Proc. SPIE 2157, Superconducting Superlattices and Multilayers, (29 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179174

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