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University of South Carolina

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2018

Current density

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Depairing Current Density In Nbtin Superconducting Films, Nahid Shayesteh Swails Jan 2018

Depairing Current Density In Nbtin Superconducting Films, Nahid Shayesteh Swails

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In this work, we systematically investigate the superconducting properties of Niobium Titanium Nitride (NbTiN) superconducting films with different geometries, which at low temperature remain superconducting. NbT iN superconducting films with a few nm thickness are widely used in devices such as superconductor-insulatorsuperconductor (SIS) mixers, superconducting cavities and resonators and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD). In all these applications, films of varying dimensions are required to achieve optimal performance. The initial thickness of our samples was 125 nm deposited on a silicon substrate. We change the thickness of our samples using lithography and ion milling. We measure and analyze the thickness …