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Cryogenic Fab-on-a-Chip Sticks the Landing

Imboden, Matthias  
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Han, Han
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Stark, Thomas
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2017
Acs Nano

Using a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based Fab-on-a-Chip, we quench-condense lead thin-films. Suppressing the formation of lead islands makes it possible to grow a homogeneous and continuous film as thin as 2 nm, without the use of an adhesion layer. Thermal cycling from 3 K to as low as 10 K reveals irreversible annealing of the thin-film characteristic of a metastable state. The transition to the stable state is smooth and is completed by cycling the temperature above,similar to 42 K, where a distinctive resistance minimum is observed. This resistive minimum is accompanied by an unexpected peak in the superconducting transition temperature. After further thermal cycling, the standard metallic/superconductive behavior is established. The MEMS-based approach yields a platform for systematic studies of quench-condensed thinfilm materials, making an intriguing parameter space of mesoscopic physics experimentally accessible.

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DOI
10.1021/acsnano.7b01808
Web of Science ID

WOS:000411918200018

Author(s)
Imboden, Matthias  
Han, Han
Stark, Thomas
Bishop, David
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Acs Nano
Volume

11

Issue

9

Start page

8707

End page

8716

Subjects

superconductivity

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quench-condensed thin-films

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micro- and nanofabrication

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patterning

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electron transport

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microelectromechanical systems

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in situ fabrication

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