Superconductor-insulator transition driven by magnetic-field and disorder in two-dimensional MoxSi1-x films

被引:49
作者
Okuma, S [1 ]
Terashima, T [1 ]
Kokubo, N [1 ]
机构
[1] Tokyo Inst Technol, Res Ctr Very Low Temp Syst, Meguro Ku, Tokyo 152, Japan
关键词
disordered systems; superconductors; thin films; electronic states (localized); electronic transport;
D O I
10.1016/S0038-1098(98)00066-0
中图分类号
O469 [凝聚态物理学];
学科分类号
070205 ;
摘要
We have made systematic measurements for the field-swept superconductor-insulator (S-I) transition over a wide range of disorder through the disorder-driven S-I transition using very thin amorphous MoxSi1-x films with a fixed thickness of 4 nm. Critical resistances determined from both the field-driven and disorder-driven S-I transitions are found to be nonuniversal and apparently smaller than R-Q similar to 6.5 k Omega. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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