arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 1809.01800cond-mat.supr-con
收藏

重掺硼金刚石超导性能的辐照改性

Irradiation induced modification of the superconducting properties of heavily boron doped diamond

Daniel Creedon, Yi Jiang, Kumaravelu Ganesan, Alastair Stacey, Taisuke Kageura, Hiroshi Kawarada, Jeffrey McCallum, Brett Johnson, Steven Prawer, David Jamieson

摘要:

金刚石是一种宽带隙半导体,当重掺杂硼时,可以被设计成表现出超导性。这种现象已经在通过化学气相沉积生长的样品中得到证实,其中硼浓度超过$n_{MIT} \gtrsim 4\times10^{20}/\text{cm}^3$的金属到绝缘体转变的临界浓度。虽然超导性的阈值载流子浓度通常在文献中得到很好的建立,但尚不清楚较高的临界温度与增加的硼浓度的相关性如何。先前的研究通常比较了在不同等离子体条件下或在具有不同晶体取向的衬底上生长的几个样品,以改变硼掺入晶格中的情况。在这里,我们提出了一个单一的样品与不变的硼浓度的研究,而不是修改的载流子浓度通过引入补偿缺陷,通过高能离子辐照。当缺陷的数量足以补偿空穴浓度到阈值以下时,超导性被完全抑制。此外,我们还证明了通过真空退火去除补偿缺陷来恢复超导性是可能的。

英文摘要:

Diamond, a wide band-gap semiconductor, can be engineered to exhibit superconductivity when doped heavily with boron. The phenomena has been demonstrated in samples grown by chemical vapour deposition where the boron concentration exceeds the critical concentration for the metal-to-insulator transition of $n_{MIT} \gtrsim 4\times10^{20}/\text{cm}^3$. While the threshold carrier concentration for superconductivity is generally well established in the literature, it is unclear how well correlated higher critical temperatures are with increased boron concentration. Previous studies have generally compared several samples grown under different plasma conditions, or on substrates having different crystallographic orientations, in order to vary the incorporation of boron into the lattice. Here, we present a study of a single sample with unchanging boron concentration, and instead modify the charge carrier concentration by introducing compensating defects via high energy ion irradiation. Superconductivity is completely suppressed when the number of defects is sufficient to compensate the hole concentration to below threshold. Furthermore, we show it is possible to recover the superconductivity by annealing the sample in vacuum to remove the compensating defects.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑