A method to access the electro-mechanical properties of superconducting thin film under uniaxial compression

• 作者: Xiyang Su Cong Liu Jun Zhou Xingyi Zhang Youhe Zhou
• 来源期刊: 力学学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（5）
• 所属期刊栏目: SOLID MECHANICS
• 页码范围: 1046-1050
• 页数: 5页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Superconducting thin films are widely used in superconducting quantum interferometers,microwave devices,etc.The elec-trical performance of a superconducting thin film is often affected by structural deformation or stress.Based on four-point bending of a Cu-Be beam,we constructed a device that could apply uniaxial,uniform,compressive strain to a superconduct-ing thin film at both room temperature and the temperature of liquid nitrogen.The thin film was placed into a slot carved in the Cu-Be beam.We optimized the size of this slot via numerical simulation.Our results indicated that the slot width was optimal when it was same as the width of the Cu-Be beam.Notably,the sample bended hardly after machining two slits along width direction on both sides of the slot.A YBa2Cu3O7-δ-SrTiO3(YBCO-STO)film was used as an example.It was loaded by the aforementioned device to determine its electrical characteristics as functions of the uniaxial-uniform-compressive strain.The optimized design allowed the sample to be compressed to a larger strain without breaking it.