Fast photoresponse from infrared-laser-induced flux motion in YBa2 Cu3 Ox films
Year: 1992
Type: article
Abstract: A fast photosignal has been obtained from epitaxial superconducting ${\mathrm{YBa}}_{2}$${\mathrm{Cu}}_{3}$${\mathrm{O}}_{\mathit{x}}$ thin films when a small alternating magnetic field was applied in the film plane. No bias current was required to observe this response. Pulsed infrared radiation at a wavelength of 10.6 \ensuremath{\mu}m and of 150-ns duration yielded nonlinear signals: the voltage pulses had approximately half the duration of the laser output. Signal polarity was found to depend on the sign of dH/dt. For an applied magnetic field amplitude of 1600 A/m and a frequency of 20 Hz, a maximum signal amplitude of 0.5 mV was observed at 74 K for an absorbed energy of 1 \ensuremath{\mu}J. The response originates from the motion of radiation depinned fluxoids across the plane of the film. These fluxoids are subject to a driving force arising from the flux-line density gradient established in the sample by the alternating magnetic field. The resulting net flux movement generates the photosignal by Faraday's law.
Authors: T. Puig, P. G. Huggard, Gi. Schneider, T. P. O’Brien, W. Blau, M. Pont, J. S. Muñoz, W. Prettl
Language: Latvian
Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2075213797