Structures in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ thin films investigated by magneto-optic technique |
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Authors: | J. Eisenmenger S. Kambach S. Saleh A. Tihi P. Leiderer M. Wallenhorst H. Dötsch |
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Affiliation: | (1) Fakultät für Physik, Universität Konstanz, 78434 Konstanz, Germany;(2) Fachbereich Physik, Universität Osnabrück, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany |
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Abstract: | Using a reflection magneto-optic technique we have investigated natural inhomogeneities and artificial structures in YBCO thin films exposed to an external magnetic field. The artificial structures were mechanically scratched by scanning a diamond tip with different loading over the film surface. Alternatively planar structures with reduced oxygen content could be patterned by heating the YBCO film with a focused laser beam in nitrogen atmosphere. Depending on the laser annealing parameters different screening properties concerning the applied magnetic field could be achieved.As a magneto-optically active layer we used EuS films evaporated on glass as well as bismuth- and gallium-doped lutetium-iron-garnet films grown onto (111) oriented gadolinium-gal lium-gar net substrates by liquid phase epitaxy. In contrast to measurements with EuS films that show only weak faraday rotation for temperatures higher than 20 K the magneto-optic studies have been expanded to about 60 K by using the garnet films. |
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