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The electric-field effect in metal-insulator-YBa2Cu3Ox (YBCO) superconductor, thin-film structures with thick (~200 nm), partially oxygen-depleted YBCO channels was investigated. The devices were fabricated with a laser-writing patterning technique, which is based on laser-heating-induced local changes of the oxygen content in a YBCO film. A thin, amorphous YBCO layer, deposited on the top of a patterned film, or, alternatively, a whole film substrate, were used as gate insulators. A number of test structures, with oxygen-deficient (superconducting at 10–60 K) channels and fully oxygenated (superconducting above 85 K) source and drain electrodes, were fabricated and measured. Our results indicate that the field effect observed in our samples is related to the charge-transfer effects associated with field-enhanced modifications of the crystalline order in YBCO.
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Kula, W., Sobolewski, R. (1994). Electric-Field-Effect Devices Based on Partially Oxygen-Depleted, Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films. In: Reed, R.P., Fickett, F.R., Summers, L.T., Stieg, M. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering Materials . An International Cryogenic Materials Conference Publication, vol 40. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9053-5_49
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