Quasi-Hexagonal Vortex-Pinning Lattice Using Anodized Aluminum Oxide Nanotemplates

Commensurate vortex pinning in Nb films patterned onto anodized aluminum oxide

Anodic aluminum oxide templates containing extended arrays of holes with 30-nm diameter and approximately 128-nm spacing were sputter-coated with Nb. We find pronounced matching effects in the transport and magnetization measurements beyond 4 kOe. In addition, we observe Little–Parks oscillations of the superconducting critical temperature. We compare the flux pinning in the patterned samples t...

Vortex lattice pinning in high-temperature superconductors

Vortex matter in high temperature superconductors has many peculiar properties such as melting of the vortex lattice, creation of new vortex-liquid phases etc. These effects are not seen in conventional superconductors. This is mainly due to the fact that HTc compounds are strongly type two superconductors with Ginzburg-Landau ratio up to ~110 that makes thermal and quantum fluctuations more pr...

Magnetoresistance of Nanowires Electrodeposited into Anodized Aluminum Oxide Nanochannels

Selective-Area Growth of Transferable InN Nanocolumns by Using Anodic Aluminum Oxide Nanotemplates

InN nanocolumn arrays were grown on c-plane sapphire with and without anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) nanotemplates. The crystalline quality of InN nanocolumns was significantly improved by selective-area growth (SAG) using AAO templates, as verified by X-ray diffraction measurements. Then, InN nanocolumns were transferred onto p-type silicon substrates after etching off the AAO templates. Current-...

Vortex Lattice Depinning vs. Vortex Lattice Melting: a pinning-based explanation of the equilibrium magnetization jump

In this communication we argue that the Vortex Lattice Melting scenario fails to explain several key experimental results published in the literature. From a careful analysis of these results we conclude that the Flux Line Lattice (FLL) does not melt along a materialand sample-dependent boundary Hj(T ) but the opposite, it de-couples from the superconducting matrix becoming more ordered. When t...