Control of bulk superconductivity in a BCS superconductor by surface charge doping via electrochemical gating

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العنوان: Control of bulk superconductivity in a BCS superconductor by surface charge doping via electrochemical gating
المؤلفون: Piatti, E., Daghero, D., Ummarino, G. A., Laviano, F., Nair, J. R., Cristiano, R., Casaburi, A., Portesi, C., Sola, A., Gonnelli, R. S.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. B 95, 140501 (2017)
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: The electrochemical gating technique is a powerful tool to tune the \textit{surface} electronic conduction properties of various materials by means of pure charge doping, but its efficiency is thought to be hampered in materials with a good electronic screening. We show that, if applied to a metallic superconductor (NbN thin films), this approach allows observing reversible enhancements or suppressions of the \emph{bulk} superconducting transition temperature, which vary with the thickness of the films. These results are interpreted in terms of proximity effect, and indicate that the effective screening length depends on the induced charge density, becoming much larger than that predicted by standard screening theory at very high electric fields.
Comment: 9 pages, 8 color figures (including Supplemental Material)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.140501
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03132
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1611.03132
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.140501