Anisotropic pinning enhancement in Nb films with arrays of submicrometric Ni lines

Arrays of submicrometric Ni lines have been fabricated in superconducting Nb films by electron beam lithography. In the mixed state, these arrays induce strong anisotropy in the dissipation behavior. The dissipation is reduced several orders of magnitude, in the whole applied magnetic field range, w...

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Autores: Jaque, D., González Herrera, Elvira María, Martín, J. I., Anguita,, J. V., Vicent López, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/60172
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60172
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:538.9
Superconducting films
Regular array
Magnetic dots
Lattices
Física de materiales
Física del estado sólido
2211 Física del Estado Sólido
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Sumario:Arrays of submicrometric Ni lines have been fabricated in superconducting Nb films by electron beam lithography. In the mixed state, these arrays induce strong anisotropy in the dissipation behavior. The dissipation is reduced several orders of magnitude, in the whole applied magnetic field range, when the vortex motion is perpendicular to the Ni lines (applied current parallel to them) in comparison with dissipation of vortices moving parallel to the lines. In addition, for the samples studied in this work, a change in the slope of the rho(B) curves is observed when the vortices move perpendicular to the lines and the vortex lattice parameter matches the width of the Ni lines.