Magnetron sputtered thin films based on transition metal nitride: structure and properties

SB Ghantasala, S Sharma - physica status solidi (a), 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal nitride (TMN) thin films exhibit outstanding physical, chemical, and
mechanical properties, making them best suitable for a wide variety of applications. The …

Third harmonic generation from collective modes in disordered superconductors

G Seibold, M Udina, C Castellani, L Benfatto - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recent experiments with strong THz fields in both conventional and unconventional
superconductors have clearly evidenced a marked third-harmonic generation below the …

Review of recent progress on THz spectroscopy of quantum materials: superconductors, magnetic and topological materials

A Bera, S Bera, S Kalimuddin, S Gayen… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
Recently, the THz spectroscopy has been efficiently used to investigate varieties of quantum
materials, including superconductors, novel magnetic, and topological materials. These …

Superconductor electronics fabrication process with MoNx kinetic inductors and self-shunted Josephson junctions

SK Tolpygo, V Bolkhovsky, DE Oates… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent progress in superconductor electronics fabrication has enabled single-flux-quantum
(SFQ) digital circuits with close to one million Josephson junctions (JJs) on 1-cm 2 chips …

Stability and elasticity of metastable solid solutions and superlattices in the MoN–TaN system: First-principles calculations

N Koutná, D Holec, M Friák, PH Mayrhofer, M Šob - Materials & Design, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to develop design rules for novel nitride-based coatings, we investigate trends in
thermodynamic, structural, elastic, and electronic properties of Mo 1− x Ta x N single-phase …

Optical signatures of the superconducting Goldstone mode in granular aluminum: Experiments and theory

US Pracht, T Cea, N Bachar, G Deutscher, E Farber… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Recent advances in the experimental growth and control of disordered thin films,
heterostructures, and interfaces provide fertile ground for the observation and …

Application of the Mattis-Bardeen theory in strongly disordered superconductors

G Seibold, L Benfatto, C Castellani - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The low-energy optical conductivity of conventional superconductors is usually well
described by Mattis-Bardeen (MB) theory, which predicts the onset of absorption above an …

Thermodynamic properties of Dynes superconductors

F Herman, R Hlubina - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
The tunneling density of states in dirty s-wave superconductors is often well described by the
phenomenological Dynes formula. Recently we have shown that this formula can be …

Electromagnetic properties of impure superconductors with pair-breaking processes

F Herman, R Hlubina - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Recently, a generic model was proposed for the single-particle properties of gapless
superconductors with simultaneously present pair-conserving and pair-breaking impurity …

Characterization of superconducting NbTiN films using a dispersive Fourier transform spectrometer

BNR Lap, A Khudchenko, R Hesper… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We have built a terahertz dispersive Fourier transform spectrometer [Birch, Microchim. Acta
93, 105–122 (1987)] to study frequency properties of superconducting films used for …