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Tunnel Junctions on Chemically Etched YBa2Cu3O7 Thin Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Julia M. Phillips
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
J. M. Valles Jr.
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
A. M. Cucolo
Affiliation:
Physics Dept., University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, ITALY
R. C. Dynes
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
M. Gurvitch
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
J. P. Garno
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
J. H. Marshall
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
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Abstract

We have prepared low leakage tunnel junctions on epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) films grown on SrTiO3(001) by evaporating Pb counterelectrodes onto chemically etched YBCO surfaces. Structure in the voltage dependence of the tunneling conductance is reproducible and strongly resembles what has been obtained in similarly etched junctions on YBCO single crystals.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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