Approaching depairing current in dirty thin superconducting strip covered by low resistive normal metal

Autor: M. Yu. Levichev, I. Yu. Pashen’kin, Alexander M. Klushin, S. S. Ustavschikov, D. Yu. Vodolazov
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Superconductor Science and Technology. 34:015004
ISSN: 1361-6668
0953-2048
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/abc2ad
Popis: We experimentally demonstrate that a thin dirty superconducting (S) strip covered by low resistive normal metal (N) approaches closer to the depairing current than a single S strip, which makes its non-linear properties stronger. The obtained result comes from proximity-induced superconductivity in the N layer, its large contribution to the superconducting properties of the SN bilayer and larger sensitivity to the current than that of the host S layer. We argue that such an SN bilayer could be a promising system for different applications based on the current-dependent kinetic inductance. In addition, we also find that in the presence of the N layer the maximal vortex velocity in the resistive state considerably increases.
Databáze: OpenAIRE