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We study the fluctuation conductivity of a superconducting film, which is placed to perpendicular non-uniform magnetic field with the amplitude $H_0$ induced by the ferromagnet with domain structure. The conductivity tensor is shown to be…
The electrical conductivity induced near the superconducting transition by thermal fluctuations was measured in different granular aluminum films. The seemingly anomalous behavior at high reduced temperatures and magnetic fields is…
We study the critical behavior of magnetic thin films as a function of the film thickness. We use the ferromagnetic Ising model with the high-resolution multiple histogram Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. We show that though the 2D behavior…
We have measured the frequency and temperature dependences of complex ac conductivity, \sigma(\omega)=\sigma_1(\omega)-i\sigma_2(\omega), of NbN films in zero magnetic field between 0.1 to 10 GHz using a microwave broadband technique. In…
The transverse magnetoresistance of thin films of the Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Zn$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$O:Al on glass was studied for temperatures in the range of 5 to 100 K. Measurements were made on thin films grown by rf magnetron…
The newly found superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelate superconducting films has attracted much attention, because their crystalline and electronic structures are similar to high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductors. The upper critical…
The copper ferrite thin films have been deposited by RF sputtering at a 50W rf power. The As-deposited films are annealed in air at $800^{\circ}$C and then slow cooled. The As-deposited (AD) as well as slow cooled (SC) films are studied…
We have calculated the temperature dependence of the conductance variation ($\delta S(T)$) of mesoscopic superconductor normal metal(S/N) structures, in the diffusive regime, analysing both weak and strong proximity effects. We show that in…
We report magnetic field dependent magnetization and microwave impedance measurements on a MgB2 superconductor prepared by high pressure synthesis. We find that the upper critical field is linearly dependent on temperature near Tc and the…
Superconducting compounds of the family Hg-Ba-Ca-Cu-O have been the subject of intense study since the current record-holder for the highest critical temperature of a superconductor belongs to this class of materials. Thin films of the…
We investigate the temperature dependence of the resistivity and magnetoresistance of a polycrystalline $Sr_2CoMoO_{6-\delta}$ film deposited on (100)-$SrTiO_3$ substrate prepared by the pulsed laser deposition method. X-ray diffraction,…
We have performed magnetotransport experiments in the high-temperature regime (up to 50 K) of the integer quantum Hall effect for two-dimensional electron gases in semiconducting heterostructures. While the magnetic field dependence of the…
This report examines the thickness dependence of the reorientation phase transition in ferromagnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy. That is, we find the exact boundary of metastability of uniformly magnetized in-plane states as the…
The evolution of the temperature dependence of pseudogap $\Delta$*(T) in optimally doped (OD) YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$ (YBCO) films with $T_{c}$ = 88.7 K under the influence of a magnetic field $B$ up to 8 T has been studied in detail.…
Superconductivity has been found in RuN films obtained by reactive magnetron sputtering. This is a novel member of the metal nitride superconductors family. The critical temperature of the superconducting transition varies depending on the…
The temperature dependence of the superfluid density $\rho_s(T)$ has been measured for a series of ultrathin MBE-grown DyBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\delta}$ superconducting (SC) films by sub-mm wave interferometry combined with time-domain THz…
We study experimentally the molecular weight $M$ dependence of spreading rates of molecularly thin precursor films, growing at the bottom of droplets of polymer liquids. In accord with previous observations, we find that the radial…
We report magnetotransport measurements of the critical field behavior of thin Al films deposited onto multiply connected substrates. The substrates were fabricated via a standard electrochemical process that produced a triangular array of…
High transition temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity is associated with layered crystal structures. This work considers superconductivity in ultra-thin crystals (of thickness equal to the transverse structural periodicity distance d for…
We develop a systematic theory of the Hall effect in Q1D conductors in both weak and strong magnetic fields for a model where the electron relaxation time varies over the Fermi surface. At high temperatures, the Hall coefficient saturates…