Iron-based superconducting thin films / Silvia Haindl.

Author
Haindl, Silvia [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
  • ©2021
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  • Springer series in materials science ; Volume 315. [More in this series]
  • Springer Series in Materials Science ; Volume 315
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Contents
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Acronyms
  • 1 Introduction to Fe-Based Superconductors
  • 1.1 Discoveries and the `Iron Age' in Superconductivity
  • 1.2 Compounds and Crystal Structures
  • 1.3 Iron (Fe) and Superconductivity
  • 1.4 Electronic Bands and Fermi Surfaces
  • 1.5 Nematicity, Magnetism and Superconductivity
  • References
  • 2 Thin Film Growth of Fe-Based Superconductors
  • 2.1 Pulsed Laser Deposition
  • 2.1.1 Overview
  • 2.1.2 PLD of Fe-Chalcogenides
  • 2.1.3 PLD of Fe-Pnictide Compounds with ThCr2Si2 Structure
  • 2.1.4 PLD of Fe-Oxyarsenides with ZrCuSiAs Structure
  • 2.2 Molecular Beam Epitaxy
  • 2.2.1 Overview
  • 2.2.2 MBE-Growth of Fe-Chalcogenide Thin Films
  • 2.2.3 Fabrication of Fe-Chalcogenide Monolayers
  • 2.2.4 Alkali-Metal Evaporation on Ultrathin FeSe Films
  • 2.2.5 Fe-Chalcogenides/Topological Insulators (TIs)
  • 2.2.6 MBE-Growth of Fe-Pnictides
  • 2.3 Other Thin Film Growth Methods
  • 2.3.1 Two-Stage Synthesis with Postdeposition Annealing
  • 2.3.2 Selenization Methods for FeSe Film Growth
  • 2.3.3 Magnetron Sputtering of Fe-Chalcogenides
  • 2.3.4 Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
  • 2.3.5 Electrodeposition of FeSe and LiFeAs
  • 2.3.6 Other Wet Chemical Deposition Processes for FeSe
  • 3 Growth, Microstructure and Surfaces
  • 3.1 In-Situ Film Growth Monitoring
  • 3.1.1 LEED
  • 3.1.2 RHEED
  • 3.1.3 HEPD
  • 3.2 Thin Film Texture and Crystal Quality
  • 3.2.1 Texture and In-Plane-Alignment of Grains
  • 3.2.2 Out-of-Plane-Alignment and Rocking Curves
  • 3.3 Growth Modes, Surface Structure and Morphology
  • 3.3.1 Polar Surfaces
  • 3.3.2 Growth Modes of Vapor Deposited Films
  • 3.3.3 Examples of Surface Studies
  • 4 The Film/Substrate Interface
  • 4.1 Substrates in Thin Film Growth of Fe-Based Superconductors
  • 4.1.1 The Role of the Substrate
  • 4.1.2 Buffer and Seed Layers.
  • 4.1.3 Fe-Chalcogenide Film/Substrate Interfaces
  • 4.1.4 Selected Fe-Pnictide Film/Substrate Interfaces
  • 4.2 Interface Models
  • 4.2.1 Misfit Dislocations
  • 4.2.2 FeSe and FeSe1-xTex on TiO2 and TiO2-Terminated SrTiO3
  • 4.2.3 Interface Models for Fe-Chalcogenides on LaAlO3 and MgO
  • 4.2.4 Heterointerfaces with Fe-Pnictides
  • 4.3 TEM Interface Atlas
  • 4.3.1 Fe-Chalcogenide Thin Film/Substrate Interfaces
  • 4.3.2 Fe-Pnictide Thin Film/Substrate Interfaces
  • 5 More Interfaces: Multilayers and Heterostructures with Fe-Based Superconductors
  • 5.1 FeSe1-xTex-Based Multilayers
  • 5.2 New Platforms: Interfaces Between FeSe (FeTe) and TIs
  • 5.3 BaFe2As2-Based Heterointerfaces
  • 5.4 Secondary Phase Formation and Artificially Introduced Nanoparticles
  • 6 Thin Film Studies Under Focus
  • 6.1 Vortex Matter in Thin Films
  • 6.1.1 Vortex Motion
  • 6.1.2 Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) Transition
  • 6.1.3 Critical Currents and Vortex Pinning
  • 6.1.4 The Role of Grain Boundaries
  • 6.2 Superconductor-to-Insulator (SIT) Transitions
  • 6.2.1 Granular and Crystalline FeSe Films
  • 6.2.2 Electrostatic Doping in EDLT/FeSe Films and SIT
  • 6.3 Electronic Phase Diagrams
  • 6.3.1 FeSe1-xTex and FeSe1-xSx
  • 6.3.2 FeSe and K-Coated FeSe Surface
  • 6.3.3 Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2
  • 6.3.4 BaFe2As2/SrTiO3 Superlattices
  • 6.4 Metastable Compounds
  • 6.5 The Tc Boost in FeSe Monolayers
  • 6.5.1 Fermi Surface, Topology and Energy Gap
  • 6.5.2 Charge Transfer
  • 6.5.3 Interfacial Electron-Phonon Coupling
  • 6.5.4 Vortices and Andreev Bound States
  • 6.6 High Magnetic Field Studies
  • 6.6.1 Fe-Chalcogenide Thin Films in High Magnetic Fields
  • 6.6.2 Fe-Pnictide Thin Films in High Magnetic Fields
  • 6.7 Electromagnetic Properties, Superconducting Gaps and Fermi Surfaces ...
  • 6.7.1 DC Transport and Response to Low Frequency Fields.
  • 6.7.2 Radio Frequency and Microwave Techniques
  • 6.7.3 Optical (IR/THz) Spectroscopy
  • 6.7.4 Photoelectron Spectroscopies
  • 6.7.5 Point-Contact Spectroscopy
  • 6.8 Irradiation and Implantation
  • 6.8.1 Laser Light Irradiation of and Ion Implantation in FeTe Films
  • 6.8.2 Irradiation and Implantation Effects in FeSe1-xTex Films
  • 6.8.3 Irradiation of Fe-Pnictide Thin Films
  • Appendix A Chronological Survey of Selected Publications
  • Appendix B Space Groups and Brillouin Zones
  • Index.
ISBN
3-030-75132-5
OCLC
1258273861
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