Investigation of the deposition of α-tantalum (110) films on a-plane sapphire substrate by molecular beam epitaxy for superconducting circuit.

Autor: Jia, Haolin, zhou, Boyi, Wang, Tao, Wu, Yanfu, Yang, Lina, Ding, Zengqian, Li, Shuming, Cai, Xiao, Xiong, Kanglin, Feng, Jiagui
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Zdroj: Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology: Part B-Nanotechnology & Microelectronics; Sep2023, Vol. 41 Issue 5, p1-6, 6p
Abstrakt: Polycrystalline α-tantalum (110) films deposited on the c-plane sapphire substrate by sputtering are used in superconducting qubits nowadays. However, these films always occasionally form other structures, such as α-tantalum (111) grains and β-tantalum grains. To improve the film quality, we investigate the growth of α-tantalum (110) films on the a-plane sapphire substrate under varying conditions by molecular beam epitaxy technology. The optimized α-tantalum (110) film is a single crystal, with a smooth surface and atomically flat metal–substrate interface. The film with thickness of 30 nm shows a Tc of 4.12 K and a high residual resistance ratio of 9.53. The quarter wavelength coplanar waveguide resonators fabricated with the 150 nm optimized α-tantalum (110) film exhibit intrinsic quality factor of over one million under single photon excitation at millikelvin temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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