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Closing the superconducting gap in small Pb nanoislands with high magnetic fields

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Burgess,  J. A. J.
Dynamics of Nanoelectronic Systems, Independent Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany;

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Yan,  S.
Dynamics of Nanoelectronic Systems, Independent Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany;

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Loth,  S.
Dynamics of Nanoelectronic Systems, Independent Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany;

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Rolf-Pissarczyk,  S.
Dynamics of Nanoelectronic Systems, Independent Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany;

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Burgess, J. A. J., Yan, S., Loth, S., & Rolf-Pissarczyk, S. (2016). Closing the superconducting gap in small Pb nanoislands with high magnetic fields. Physical Review B, 94(22): 224504. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.224504.


Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-8CB6-4
Zusammenfassung
Superconducting properties change in confined geometries. Here we study the effects of strong confinement in nanosized Pb islands on Si(111) 7×7. Small hexagonal islands with diameters less than 50 nm and a uniform height of seven atomic layers are formed by depositing Pb at low temperature and annealing at 300 K. We measure the tunneling spectra of individual Pb nanoislands using a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope operated at 0.6 K and follow the narrowing of the superconducting gap as a function of magnetic field. We find the critical magnetic field, at which the superconducting gap vanishes, reaches several Tesla, which represents a greater than 50-fold enhancement compared to the bulk value. By independently measuring the size of the superconducting gap, and the critical magnetic field that quenches superconductivity for a range of nanoislands, we can correlate these two fundamental parameters and estimate the maximal achievable critical field for 7 ML Pb nanoislands to be 7 T.