In situ growth of Y1Ba2Cu3O7−x superconducting thin films using a pulsed neodymium:yttrium aluminum garnet laser with CO2 laser heated substrates

Abstract
By replacing the resistive heater with a CO2 laser to heat the substrates together with concentered oxygen stream blowing onto the substrate during deposition, high quality Y1Ba2Cu3O7−x thin films with nearly perfect c‐axis orientation and Tc0=87 K were grown in situ without subsequent slow cooling in oxygen atmosphere or any further heat treatment. The rapid quenching, from typically 600 °C to room temperature in less than 50 s of the as‐deposited films, excludes the possibility of further oxygen incorporation during the cooling process and indicates that the in situ growth may have completed during deposition under proper deposition conditions.