SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR TUNNELING IN BA1-XKXBIO3 GRAIN-BOUNDARIES

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KUSSMAUL, A [1 ]
HELLMAN, ES [1 ]
HARTFORD, EH [1 ]
TEDROW, PM [1 ]
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[1] MIT,FRANCIS BITTER NATL MAGNET LAB,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139
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10.1063/1.110299
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We have prepared single grain boundaries of the superconductor Ba1-xKxBiO3 by growing epitaxial thin films of this compound on SrTiO3 bicrystal substrates. The four-terminal current-voltage characteristics of the grain boundaries showed clear superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) tunneling behavior. The leakage at zero bias was smaller than 0.3% at 4.2 K. The differential conductance displayed sharp symmetric peaks at 2 Delta close to 6.5 mV. At higher bias, an increase in conductance proportional to V-2 was observed. The temperature dependence of the conductance was found to be in qualitative accord with conventional SIS theory.
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