Superconducting materials and devices grown by focused ion and electron beam induced deposition

Orús, P. ; Sigloch, F. ; Sangiao, S. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Teresa, J. M. de (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Since its discovery in 1911, superconductivity has represented an equally inciting and fascinating field of study in several areas of physics and materials science, ranging from its most fundamental theoretical understanding, to its practical application in different areas of engineering. The fabrication of superconducting materials can be downsized to the nanoscale by means of Focused Ion/Electron Beam Induced Deposition: nanopatterning techniques that make use of a focused beam of ions or electrons to decompose a gaseous precursor in a single step. Overcoming the need to use a resist, these approaches allow for targeted, highly-flexible nanopatterning of nanostructures with lateral resolution in the range of 10 nm to 30 nm. In this review, the fundamentals of these nanofabrication techniques are presented, followed by a literature revision on the published work that makes use of them to grow superconducting materials, the most remarkable of which are based on tungsten, niobium, molybdenum, carbon, and lead. Several examples of the application of these materials to functional devices are presented, related to the superconducting proximity effect, vortex dynamics, electric-field effect, and to the nanofabrication of Josephson junctions and nanoSQUIDs. Owing to the patterning flexibility they offer, both of these techniques represent a powerful and convenient approach towards both fundamental and applied research in superconductivity. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/nano12081367

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Nanomaterials 12, 8 (2022), 1367 [29 pp.]
ISSN: 2079-4991

Factor impacto JCR: 5.3 (2022)

Categ. JCR: PHYSICS, APPLIED rank: 39 / 160 = 0.244 (2022) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY rank: 51 / 107 = 0.477 (2022) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 58 / 178 = 0.326 (2022) - Q2 - T1
Categ. JCR: MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 110 / 343 = 0.321 (2022) - Q2 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 7.4 - Chemical Engineering (Q1) - Materials Science (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.811 - Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Materials Science (miscellaneous) (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/CSIC/PIE-202060E187
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/CSIC/PTI-001
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E13-20R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/892427/EU/Focused Ion Beam fabrication of superconducting scanning Probes/FIBsuperProbes
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/PID2020-112914RB-I00

Tipo y forma: Review (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Física Materia Condensada (Dpto. Física Materia Condensa.)