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We report on the study of phonon properties and electron-phonon coupling in thin NbTiN films, which are intensively exploited in superconducting devices. Studied NbTiN films with thicknesses less than 10~nm are disordered with respect to…
CdS thin film samples were fabricated using spin coating technique on normal glass and conductive glass substrates and annealed at different temperatures. According to the XRD patterns of films prepared on normal glass substrates,…
Due to their high kinetic inductance, highly disordered superconducting thin films are a potential hardware for the realization of compact, low-noise elements in cryoelectronic applications. However, high disorder typically results in…
In this work, we studied cobalt nitride (Co-N) thin films deposited using a dc magnetron sputtering method at a substrate temperature (\Ts) of 523\,K. We find that independent of the reactive gas flow (\pn) used during sputtering, the…
Nitride-based superconductors represent a family of superconducting thin film materials displaying higher quality than their corresponding bare superconductor when used in devices for applications such as cosmic radiation sensing. In recent…
Helical magnets are emerging as a novel class of materials for spintronics and sensor applications; however, research on their charge and spin transport properties in a thin film form is less explored. Herein, we report the temperature and…
We have measured the magnetotransport properties and Hall effect of a series of epitaxial NbN films grown on (100) oriented single crystalline MgO substrate under different conditions using reactive magnetron sputtering. Hall effect…
Thin films of Co2MnSi have been grown on a-plane sapphire substrates from three elemental targets by dc magnetron co-sputtering. These films are single phase, have a strong (110) texture and a saturation magnetization of 4.95 uB/formula…
The features of electronic structure of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3, Pr0.8Sr0.2MnO3, and Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3 polycrystalline films of different thickness have been investigated using magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) in the range of 1.1-4.2 eV. The…
$\alpha$-Sn thin films can exhibit a variety of topologically non-trivial phases. Both studying the transitions between these phases and making use of these phases in eventual applications requires good control over the electronic and…
We report the magnetoresistance and nonlinear Hall effect studies over a wide temperature range in pulsed laser deposited Ni0.07Zn0.93O thin film. Negative and positive contributions to magnetoresistance at high and low temperatures have…
Thin films of the prototypical charge transfer insulator NiO appear to be a promising material for novel nanoelectronic devices. The fabrication of the material is challenging however, and mostly a p-type semiconducting phase is reported.…
This research investigates the structural, topological, electrical and optical properties of pulsed laser deposited polycrystalline BiFeO3 thin films on silicon and glass substrate at varying deposition temperatures ranging from 400 degC to…
The phenomenon of high temperature superconductivity, approaching room temperature, has been realized in a number of hydrogen-dominant alloy systems under high pressure conditions1-12. A significant discovery in reaching room temperature…
We propose a low-cost approach for the synthesis of multifunctional CuSnS3 (CTS) ternary compound thin film via spray pyrolysis technique. By varying Sn and S doping concentrations, a high energy absorber layers of CuSnS3 thin films were…
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have an absolute advantage over other types of single photon detectors except the low operating temperature. Therefore, many efforts have been devoted to find high-temperature…
(La and Ga)-doped tin monoxide (stannous oxide, tin (II) oxide, SnO) thin films were grown by plasma-assisted and suboxide molecular beam epitaxy with dopant concentrations ranging from $\approx5\times10^{18}$cm$^{-3}$ to…
Silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) have shown great promise for electroluminescent and photoluminescent applications. In order to optimize the properties of Si NC devices, however, electronic transport in Si NCs films needs to be thoroughly…
Microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) has been traditionally used to synthesize carbon-based materials such as diamonds, carbon nanotubes and graphene. Here we report that a rapid and catalyst-free growth of SnSe thin films can…
We report on the influence of the chemical composition on the electronic properties of molybdenum oxynitrides thin films grown by reactive sputtering on Si (100) substrates at room temperature. The partial pressure of Ar was fixed at 90 %,…