Science and Technology of Thin Film Superconductors

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Superconducting Properties of Ultra-Thin Films of Y 1 Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7-x ....Pages 1-9
Plasma-Assisted Laser Deposition of Superconducting Thin Films — A Basic Study....Pages 11-20
Formation of Bi(Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films at 500°C by a Successive Deposition Method Using Excimer Laser....Pages 21-26
The Effect of Annealing Conditions on Laser Deposited Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films....Pages 27-33
Pulsed Laser Evaporation of Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O Films....Pages 35-43
Preparation of High Temperature Superconductor Thin Films on Si Based Substrates by Excimer Laser Ablation, Film-Substrate Interactions, and Plasma Processing Effects on Crystallinity....Pages 45-51
Laser Ablation Analysis of 1-2-3 Material....Pages 53-59
Microstructural Investigation of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-δ Films Deposited by Laser Ablation from BaF 2 /Y 2 O 3 /CuO Targets....Pages 61-70
Preparation of Thin and Thick Film Superconductors in the Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O System....Pages 71-80
In-Situ Growth of High T C Thin Films....Pages 81-90
High T c Thin Film Research at NRL....Pages 91-100
Properties of in-Situ Superconducting Y 1 Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7-x Films by Molecular Beam Epitaxy with an Activated Oxygen Source....Pages 101-110
Properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films Grown in-Situ at Low Temperatures by Co-Evaporation and Plasma Oxidation....Pages 111-119
YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 Thin Films Prepared by Evaporation from Yttrium, Copper and BaF 2 ....Pages 121-129
A Simple Technique to Prepare High Quality Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-Oxide Thin Films....Pages 131-140
Preparation of Thin Films YBaCu(F)O with High T c and J c ....Pages 141-146
Superconducting Phase Control for Rare-Earth-Free High-Tc Superconducting Thin Films....Pages 147-156
As-Deposited Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films on Si, SiO 2 , GaAs and Ni/Cu Substrates by High Pressure DC Sputtering Process....Pages 157-164
Superconducting Properties of Magnetron Sputtered Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O and Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films....Pages 165-173
Film Fabrication of Artificial (BiO)/(SrCaCuO) Layered Structure....Pages 175-184
Magnetron Sputtering of Thin Films of Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O....Pages 185-191
Interaction of High Temperature Superconductors with Conductive Oxides....Pages 193-198
Preparation and Characterizations of Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconducting Thin Films....Pages 199-203
Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Compositional Modulation and Multilayered Film Synthesis by Plasma Controlled Sputtering....Pages 205-213
High T c Y-Ba-Cu-O Films Prepared by Multilayer, Reactive Sputtering from Separate Y, Cu, and Ba 0.5 Cu 0.5 Targets....Pages 215-220
Superconducting Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films....Pages 221-227
Tl-Based Superconducting Films by Sputtering Using a Single Target....Pages 229-236
Structure and Properties of Magnetron Sputtered Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Films....Pages 237-244
Effect of Annealing Conditions on the Structural and Superconducting Properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O Films....Pages 245-252
Synthesis of Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca n Cu n+1 O x Films by Multilayer Deposition Technique....Pages 253-257
Study of High Quality YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-y Thin Films....Pages 259-264
Deposition of TlBaCaCuO Thin Films....Pages 265-270
Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Highly Textured Superconducting YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x Films....Pages 271-279
Metal-Organics for CVD of HT c S....Pages 281-294
Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Superconducting YBaCuO Films and Post-Deposition Processing....Pages 295-299
Melt Growth of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconducting Sheets and Filaments....Pages 301-307
Structural and Electrical Properties of Screen Printed and Spray Pyrolized High T c Superconducting Films....Pages 309-316
Spray-Deposited Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films....Pages 317-325
Microstructure and Critical Currents of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x Thin Films on SrTiO 3 and a New Substrate: KTaO 3 ....Pages 327-336
Growth of High-Temperature Superconductor Thin Films on Lanthanum Aluminate Substrates....Pages 337-346
Superconducting Films of YBCO on Bare Silicon....Pages 347-352
Perovskite Related Substrates for Superconductor Films — Rare Earth Orthogallates....Pages 353-362
Preparation of Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films on Metallic Substrates....Pages 363-370
Substrate-HTcS Thin Film Interaction Studies by (S)TEM....Pages 371-375
Characterization of ZrO 2 Buffer Layers for Sequentially Evaporated Y-Ba-Cu-O on Si and Al 2 O 3 Substrates....Pages 377-386
The Transport Behavior of the YBaCuO Superconducting Thin Films in the Magnetic Fields....Pages 387-393
Magnetization, Flux Creep and Transport in Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films....Pages 395-405
Composition Analysis of High T c Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films by RBS and EPMA....Pages 407-414
Determination of the Superconducting Transition Onset Temperature in Small-Volume Specimens....Pages 415-422
Measurement of Superconducting Transition Temperatures of Thin Films of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 by Four-Terminal Resistance and Magnetic Susceptibility....Pages 423-430
Determination of Oxidation States of Copper in YBaCuO Thin Films by Electrochemical Analysis....Pages 431-439
Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conduction in HT c S....Pages 441-448
Photodetection with High-T c Superconducting Films....Pages 449-458
The Fabrication of Josephson Junctions on Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films....Pages 459-467
Non-Aqueous One-Micron Feature Size Lithography of Superconducting Films....Pages 469-476
Limitations due to the Critical Current Density in Superconducting Lines for Future VLSI Packaging....Pages 477-486
Coevaporated Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu Oxide Films and Their Patterning Film Fabrication of Artificial (BiO)/(SrCaCuO) Layered Structure....Pages 487-494
dV/dI Double Peak Structures in Superlattice-Based Tunnel Junctions....Pages 495-499
Processing and Patterning Techniques for Thin Films of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 ....Pages 501-507
High Magnetic Field Shielding with Superconducting NbTi-Cu Multilayer Films....Pages 509-515
Introduction to Superconductivity....Pages 517-525
Fermiology of High T c Films and the Proximity Effect....Pages 527-530
The High Tc Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O Superconducting System....Pages 531-539
Back Matter....Pages 541-557