Magneto-optic observation of anomalous Meissner current flow in superconducting thin films with slits
Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 3590 (1996); doi:10.1063/1.117216
Issue Date: 2 December 1996
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Slits patterned into a YBa2Cu3O7
thin film were observed to obstruct Meissner sheet currents leading to an imbalance in the local Meissner screening properties. The new phenomenon was studied with magneto-optic imaging where twin lobes of opposite flux polarity were seen to form near the slits and inside the Meissner region. The lobe closest to the sample edge is always polarized opposite to the applied field. At weak fields, the anomalous flux generation is reversible. At higher fields, but still sufficiently small to keep the vortex penetration front away from the slits, the anomalous current starts nucleating flux lines which become trapped when the field is removed. ©1996 American Institute of Physics.
thin film were observed to obstruct Meissner sheet currents leading to an imbalance in the local Meissner screening properties. The new phenomenon was studied with magneto-optic imaging where twin lobes of opposite flux polarity were seen to form near the slits and inside the Meissner region. The lobe closest to the sample edge is always polarized opposite to the applied field. At weak fields, the anomalous flux generation is reversible. At higher fields, but still sufficiently small to keep the vortex penetration front away from the slits, the anomalous current starts nucleating flux lines which become trapped when the field is removed. ©1996 American Institute of Physics.
| History: | Received 9 July 1996; accepted 16 September 1996 |
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KEYWORDS and PACS
SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS,
MEISSNER ,
OCHSENFELD EFFECT,
MAGNETIC FLUX,
MAGNETO ,
OPTICAL EFFECTS,
YTTRIUM OXIDES,
BARIUM OXIDES,
COPPER OXIDES,
HIGH ,
TC SUPERCONDUCTORS,
FLUX QUANTIZATION,
VISUALIZATION
- 74.76.Bz
Superconductivity Superconducting films High-Tc films - 74.25.Ha
Superconductivity General properties; correlations between physical properties in normal and superconducting states Magnetic properties - 78.20.Jq
Optical properties, condensed matter spectroscopy and other interactions of radiation and particles with condensed matter Optical properties of bulk materials and thin films Electrooptical effects - YEAR: 1996
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