Magnetic Field Dependence of the Critical Current of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ-Based Intrinsic Josephson Junctions
ZHU Xiao-Bo, WEI Yan-Feng, ZHAO Shi-Ping, CHEN Geng-Hua, YANG Qian-Sheng
Key Laboratory of Extreme Conditions Physics, Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
Magnetic Field Dependence of the Critical Current of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ-Based Intrinsic Josephson Junctions
Key Laboratory of Extreme Conditions Physics, Institute of Physics and Center for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
Abstract： Well-characterized surface intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs) on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals are fabricated by in situ cryogenic cleavage of the crystals and immediate evaporation of Au films on the crystal surface. Magnetic field dependences of the critical currents of the surface and inner IJJs are carefully measured. We find that the critical current behaviour of the surface IJJs in magnetic field is quite different from that of the inner junctions. The behaviour of the inner IJJs can be understood to be of large stacked junctions described by the coupled sine-Gordon equations, while the surface IJJs behave like a separate single large junction. These results indicate that the coupling between the surface IJJ and the inner IJJs is weaker than the coupling among the inner junctions.
ZHU Xiao-Bo;WEI Yan-Feng;ZHAO Shi-Ping;CHEN Geng-Hua;YANG Qian-Sheng. Magnetic Field Dependence of the Critical Current of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ-Based Intrinsic Josephson Junctions[J]. 中国物理快报, 2004, 21(4): 726-728.
ZHU Xiao-Bo, WEI Yan-Feng, ZHAO Shi-Ping, CHEN Geng-Hua, YANG Qian-Sheng. Magnetic Field Dependence of the Critical Current of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ-Based Intrinsic Josephson Junctions. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2004, 21(4): 726-728.
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