Observation of thermally activated glassiness and memory dip in a-NbSi insulating thin films

Autor: Delahaye, Julien, Grenet, Thierry, Marrache-Kikuchi, C., Bergé, L., Drillien, A. A.
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Europhysics Letters 106 (2014) 67006
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/106/67006
Popis: We present electrical conductance measurements on amorphous NbSi insulating thin films. These films display out-of equilibrium electronic features that are markedly different from what has been reported so far in disordered insulators. Like in the most studied systems (indium oxide and granular Al films), a slow relaxation of the conductance is observed after a quench to liquid helium temperature which gives rise to the growth of a memory dip in MOSFET devices. But unlike in these systems, this memory dip and the related conductance relaxations are still visible up to room temperature, with clear signatures of a temperature dependent dynamics.
Databáze: arXiv