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Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Investigation of the Effect of Thermal Cycling on the Device Performance of Yba2cu3o7-? Dc-Squids(IOP Publishing Ltd., 2007) Avcı, İlbeyi; Algül, B. P.; Bozbey, Ali; Akram, R.; Tepe, Mustafa; Abukay, DoğanWe investigated the effect of thermal cycling on the operational performance of YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) direct current superconducting quantum interference devices (DC-SQUIDs) fabricated onto 24°SrTiO3 (STO) bicrystal substrates. The devices under investigation consist of directly coupled DC-SQUID magnetometer configurations. Thin films having 200nm thicknesses were deposited by dc-magnetron sputtering and device patterns were made by a standard lithography process and chemical etching. The SQUIDs having 4νm-wide grain boundary Josephson junctions (GBJJs) were characterized by means of critical currents, peak-to-peak output voltages and noise levels, depending on the thermal cycles. In order to achieve a protective layer for the junctions against the undesired effects of thermal cycles and ambient atmosphere during the room temperature storage, the devices were coated with a 400nm thick YBCO layer at room temperature. Since the second layer of amorphous YBCO is completely electrically insulating, it does not affect the operation of the junctions and pick-up coils of magnetometers. This two-layered configuration ensures the protection of the junctions from ambient atmosphere as well as from the effect of water molecules interacting with the film structure during each thermal cycle.Article Developing a Trilayer Processing Technique for Superconducting Yba 2cu3o7-? Thin Films by Using Ge Ion Implantation(IOP Publishing Ltd., 2005) Avcı, İlbeyi; Tepe, Mustafa; Öktem, Bülent; Serincan, Uğur; Turan, Raşit; Abukay, DoğanFor making trilayer superconducting devices based on YBa2Cu 3O7-δ (YBCO) thin film processing, we developed a new technique by employing Ge ion implantation. A YBCO thin film of 150 nm thickness having high c-axis orientation and a transition temperature, T c, of 90 K was implanted with 80 keV, 1 × 1016 Ge ions cm-2 at room temperature. By the result of TRIM calculation, Ge ions were found to penetrate into the YBCO thin film approximately 60 nm below the surface of the film, thus leaving the lower part of the film as a superconductor. Upon implantation with Ge ions, the implanted upper part of the sample lost its electrical conductivity and diamagnetism while its original crystalline structure was preserved. The implanted ions we found did not alter the overall crystal structure of the YBCO thin film; this allowed us to grow an epitaxial superconducting upper layer of YBCO on top of the implanted area, leaving no need to use any buffer layer. The superconducting properties of the upper layer were similar to those of the pure YBCO base layer with an increased room temperature resistivity and a lowered Tc (88 K). This process provides an effective method for fabrication of a trilayer HTS device structure.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Si Ion Implanted Yba 2cu3o7-? Thin Films and Microbridges(Elsevier Ltd., 2004) Avcı, İlbeyi; Tepe, Mustafa; Serincan, Uğur; Öktem, Bülent; Turan, Raşit; Abukay, DoğanFabrication of superconducting bilayer YBa2Cu3O 7-δ (YBCO) thin film structure by Si ion implantation and properties of microbridge patterned on that are presented. YBCO thin film of 150 nm thickness was grown on single crystal (100) SrTiO3 substrate by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering. The sample was implanted with 100 keV, 1×1016 Si ions/cm2. Upon implantation with Si, the sample lost its electrical conductivity and diamagnetism while its crystalline structure was preserved after the annealing of the sample. The implanted ions do not alter the overall crystal structure of high temperature superconductor film. This allows the growth of epitaxial superconducting second layer YBCO film on top of the implanted area without using any buffer layer, thus providing an effective method of fabricating multilayer structures. The second layer film and the microbridge patterned by laser writing technique, showed the superconducting properties similar to those of pure YBCO base layer with a reduced critical current density.