Ex situ elaborated proximity mesoscopic structures for ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling spectroscopyстатья
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Аннотация:We apply ultrahigh vacuum Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy (STS) at ultra-low temperature to
tudy proximity phenomena in metallic Cu in contact with superconducting Nb. In order to solv the problem of Cu-surface contamination, Cu(50 nm)/Nb(100 nm) structures are grown by
respecting the inverted order of layers on SiO2/Si substrate. Once transferred into vacuum, the samples are cleaved at the structure-substrate interface. As a result, a contamination-free
Cu-surface is exposed in vacuum. It enables high-resolution STS of superconducting correlations
induced by proximity from the underlying superconducting Nb layer. By applying magnetic field,
we generate unusual proximity-induced superconducting vortices and map them with a high spatial
and energy resolution. The suggested method opens a way to access local electronic properties of complex electronic mesoscopic devices by performing ex situ STS under ultrahigh vacuum.