Superconducting/Magnetic Oxide Thin Films and Superlattices

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance has shown that oxides and their interfaces can provide practically all physical phenomena typical for solid-state materials. The study of oxide systems, interfaces, and heterostructures, as well as the development of processes for the formation, growth, and phase stability of oxide thin films, remain the important and actual field of scientific research. All samples in this work are grown by pulsed laser deposition. So, a lot of attention was drawn to this technique optimization and improvement. It was demonstrated the ability to grow of high-quality epitaxial YBCO and LCMO thin films with different thickness on different substrates. We have investigated magnetic and transport properties of multilayered hybrid structures and superlattices consisting of superconductor and ferromagnetic layers separated by a thin insulator.