Superconductivity and metallic behavior in PbxCyOδ structures prepared by focused electron beam induced deposition

Abstract

Fabrication and electrical transport properties of binary Co-Si nanostructures prepared by focused electron beam-induced deposition

Formation of pure Cu nanocrystals upon post-growth annealing of Cu–C material obtained from focused electron beam induced deposition: comparison of different methods

“…Nanodevices with various functionalities have been deposited comprising gas sensors [3,4], magnetic sensors [5,6] strain sensors [7], thermal sensors [8], photodetectors [9], and mode stabilizers for vertical surface emitting lasers [10]. Other deposits were used as ferromagnetic wires [11,12], superconducting wires [13], plasmonic structures [14], or as electrode nanocontacts [15,16]. The feasibility of obtaining 3D nanostructures with a high aspect ratio makes FEBID suitable for fabrication of high resolution probes to scanning magnetic force microscopy (MFM) [17][18][19].…”

Focused electron beam induced deposition meets materials science

“…resulting in superconducting nanowires with an onset of superconductivity at 2 K under carefully optimized deposition conditions[6] and tetraethyllead which resulted in metallic and superconducting Pb-C-O deposits with a maximum T c of 7.3 K for the composition Pb 0.44 C 0.31 O 0.25 , a value which corresponds to the critical temperature of bulk Pb[7]. So far no follow up works using these recent FEBID-based superconductors have been published which indicates that their preparation is quite delicate and more effort is needed to establish growth protocols that result in homogenous superconducting materials with reproducible properties.4.2.…”

Abrikosov fluxonics in washboard nanolandscapes

“…At the time of writing, artificial FEBID-superconductors were limited to the systems MoC [77] and Pb x C y O δ [78], while further systems fabricated by FEBID are expected to be available in the years to come. The suitability of FEBID for the fabrication of ferromagnets (F) [79,93,94] promises to bridge the gap to study spin-triplet proximity-induced superconductivity [87,88] in S/F nanowire structures.…”

“…Well-established applications of FEBID range from photomask repair [72] to fabrication of nanowires [73], nanopores [74], magnetic [75] and strain [76] sensors as well as direct-write superconductors [77,78]. When the material to be deposited is magnetic, it is possible to tune the deposit's magnetic properties which is essential for basic research in micromagnetism [79] and spin-dependent transport [80] as well as for such applications as magnetic domain-wall logic [81] and memory [82], fabrication of Hall sensors [75] and cantilever tips [83] for magnetic force microscopy (MFM).…”