OSCILLATORY SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION-TEMPERATURE IN NB/GD MULTILAYERS

被引:365
作者
JIANG, JS
DAVIDOVIC, D
REICH, DH
CHIEN, CL
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[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.314
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The superconducting transition temperature Tc in Nb/Gd multilayers shows a pronounced nonmonotonic dependence on the ferromagnetic Gd layer thickness dGd for fixed Nb thickness dNb. For dNb=500 and 600 , the Tc oscillation occurs in the range 10≤dGd≤40 where the Gd ferromagnetism is well established. These results provide the first evidence for the predicted π phase in superconductor/ferromagnet multilayers where the order parameter in neighboring superconducting layers may have an intrinsic phase difference. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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