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Analytic modeling of patterned high-Tc superconductive bolometers: film and substrate interface effects
(SPIE, 1998) Fardmanesh, Mehdi; Rothwarf, A.
Superconducting film and substrate interface effects on the response of superconductive edge-transition bolometers are modeled with a one dimensional thermal model in closed form, for samples with large area patterns compared to the substrate thickness. The results from the model agree with experimental results on samples made of meander line patterned granular YBCO films on crystalline substrates, in both the magnitude and phase of the response versus modulation frequency up to about 100 KHz, the limit of the characterization setup. Using the fit of the calculated frequency response curves obtained from the model to the measured ones, values of the film-substrate and substrate-holder thermal boundary resistance, heat capacity of the superconducting film, and the thermal parameters of the substrate materials could be investigated. While the calculated magnitude and phase of the response of the SrTiO3 substrate samples obtained from the model is in a very good agreement with the measured values, the calculated response of the LaAlO3 and MgO substrate samples deviate slightly from the measured values at very low frequencies, increasing with an increase in the thermal conductivity of the substrate material. Using the fit of the calculated response to the measured values, film-substrate thermal boundary resistances in the range of 4.4* 10-3 to 4.4* 10-2 K-cm2-w-1 are obtained for different substrate materials. The effect of substrate optical absorption in the response of the samples is also investigated.
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Temperature dependence of the phase of the response of YBCO edge-transition bolometers: effects of superconductivity transition and thermal parameters
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003) Fardmanesh, M.; Askerzade, İ. N.
The variation of the phase of the response of YBCO edge-transition bolometers on crystalline MgO substrate is found to be dependent on the normal-superconducting transition. The phase of the response for T < Tc increased at low modulation frequencies where the thermal diffusion length into the sample substrate from the top absorbing YBCO film is longer than the substrate thickness. The substrate/cold-head boundary resistance mainly dominates the thermal conductance of our samples at low frequencies. This transition-dependent change of the phase of the response is interpreted to be due to the effects of the order parameter of the YBCO material on the phonon spectrum and hence the determining Kapitza boundary resistance. The phase of the response decreased at high modulation frequencies where the thermal diffusion length into the substrate is less than the substrate thickness. The results of our analytical model for the low modulation frequencies agree well with the measured values for temperatures close to the Tc-zero.