A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Deposition of YBCO Thin Films in View of Microwave Applications




AuthorsHannu Huhtinen, Jari Ulriksson, Mika Malmivirta, Jarno Järvinen, R. Jha, V. P. S. Awana, Sergey Vasiliev, Petriina Paturi

PublisherIEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Publication year2017

JournalIEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Journal name in sourceIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Journal acronymIEEE T APPL SUPERCON

Article numberARTN 7501205

Volume27

Issue4

Number of pages5

ISSN1051-8223

eISSN1558-2515

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2017.2669484


Abstract
In preparation for the future characterization of the microwave properties of pulsed laser deposited high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+x (YBCO) thin films, a YBCO growth optimization is performed using different substrate materials that have both a small dielectric constant and a small dielectric loss tangent. At first, the effect of thermal contact between a SrTiO3 substrate and the sample holder is investigated by comparing silver paste and amechanical attachingmask as fixing techniques. Hence, the thermal contact is observed to be a crucial parameter for successful growth, while the effect of lattice mismatch when using, e.g., MgO, SrLaAlO4, NdGaO3, and (LaAlO3)(0.3) (Sr-2 AlTaO6)(0.7), is seen to be less important. In addition, the preliminary reflection-type measurements for a meander-type coplanar stripline YBCO resonator are implemented and a comparison between the calculated and experimentally determined field-dependent frequency values is obtained.



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