Low-resistance noble metal contacts to high-temperature superconductors
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 67 (1) , 376-378
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.345265
Abstract
We have extended our studies of a melting technique for making low-resistance contacts to high-temperature superconductors. We have made contacts to both YBa2Cu3O7−x and Bi2BaSr2Cu2O8, and to related superconducting compounds by melting gold or silver pads onto the samples before the final oxygen treatment. Scanning electron microscope studies show that both gold and silver do not diffuse far from the contact area. The surface contact resistivity of the best contacts made by the melting technique has an upper limit value in the 10−8 Ω cm2 range at 77 K. This contact resistivity shows no significant change in its value over a period of 17 months. Furthermore, an electron radiation dose of 5.7×1017 electron/cm2 only doubled the contact resistivity. This method of making low-resistance contacts to high-Tc materials can be integrated into the final oxygen treatment of many prospective superconducting elements or devices.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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