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SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/aa8421
Keywords
vicinal substrates; anisotropy; critical current density; Fe1+delta Se0.5Te0.5 thin films
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- European Union's Seventh Framework Program [283204]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [GRK1621]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H04646] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We report on the growth of epitaxial Fe1+delta Se0.5Te0.5 thin films on 0 degrees, 5 degrees, 10 degrees, 15 degrees and 20 degrees vicinal cut CaF2 single crystals by pulsed laser deposition. In situ electron and ex situ x-ray diffraction studies reveal a tilted growth of the Fe1+delta Se0.5Te0.5 films, whereby under optimized deposition conditions the c-axis alignment coincides with the substrate [001] tilted axis up to a vicinal angle of 10 degrees. Atomic force microscopy shows a flat island growth for all films. From resistivity measurements in longitudinal and transversal directions, the ab-and c-axis components of resistivity are derived and the mass anisotropy parameter is determined. Analysis of the critical current density indicates that no effective c-axis correlated defects are generated by vicinal growth, and pinning by normal point core defects dominates. However, for H||ab the effective pinning centers change from surface defects to point core defects near the superconducting transition due to the vicinal cut. Furthermore, we show in angular-dependent critical current density data a shift of the ab-planes maxima position with the magnetic field strength.
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