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Intentionally Blank Slide. Search for New Cuprate Compounds at Stanford University. Paul M. Grant Visiting Scholar in Applied Physics, Stanford University EPRI Science Fellow ( retired ) IBM Research Staff Member Emeritus Principal, W2AGZ Technologies [email protected] www.w2agz.com - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Search for New Cuprate Compounds at Stanford

UniversityPaul M. Grant

Visiting Scholar in Applied Physics, Stanford UniversityEPRI Science Fellow (retired)

IBM Research Staff Member EmeritusPrincipal, W2AGZ Technologies

[email protected]

Steve EckroadProject Manager, EPRI Superconductivity Destinations 122

[email protected]

5th EPRI Superconductivity Conference & Task Force Meeting20 - 21 September 2005, Albany, NY

www.w2agz.com/epri-sctf5.htm

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Stanford Applied Materials Team

• Ted Geballe, Emeritus Professor (discoverer of more than 100 superconductors)

• Mac Beasley, Professor of Applied Physics and former Dean of the Stanford School of Arts and Sciences (reported to Condi Rice)

• Bob Hammond, Research Professor (designed and built the GLAM MBS)

• Assisted by Gertjan Koster, Visiting Professor from the University of Twente, Hideki Yamamoto, Senior Scientist on sabbatical from the National Institute of Metals, Japan, and Wolter Siemons, PhD Candidate, Stanford and Twente Universities

• Paul Grant, Visiting Scholar in Applied Physics (Theory & Modeling)

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The Problem with Layered Perovskites

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Multilayer HTSC Tape

• Sumitomo Patent (filed 5/8/87 !)

• Fujikura IBAD (US Patent issued 1993)

• EPRI/Stanford IBAD – MgO (1994)

• LANL 1 MA/cm2 (1995)

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Ion-Beam Assisted Deposition(IBM, 1980)

Precursors

SubstrateFilm

Ion Gun

e-Beam Digital Camera

RHEED Laue Pattern

Reflection High Energy

Electron Diffraction

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IBAD-MgO on a-SiN(EPRI/Stanford, 1994)

• IBAD is slow• Epi is fast• MgO (unlike other

materials) only needs “assist” for a few monolayers

• Patent to Stanford (1997) (EPRI license, sub to AMSC)

• Method of choice at LANL & IGC-SP

a-SiN Substrate

MgO + IBAD

Beam On Beam On

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Reel-to-Reel IBAD

P. M. Grant, ASC’96 (Conception, R. H. Hammond, Stanford, 1994)

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EPRI-AMSC CC Alliance(1996 – 2000)

• $10 M, 4 Years– AMSC $6 M (included work in place)– EPRI $4 M (included ongoing contracts,

e.g., Stanford and EPRI exclusive license)

• EPRI received AMSC warrants @ $14– In January, 2001, first batch vested, AMSC

@ $18

• When shares were sold, AMSC @ $61 !

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The Machine That Made EPRI $2.5 M

SubstratePreparationChamber PLD

Unit

RHEEDDigital Camera

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SubstrateInsertion

Gate Valve

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5 – meter Substrate/Sample Carriage (inserted)

CarriageArm Rail

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Dr. Hideki YamamotoVisiting Scientist from

NRIM, Japan

Dr. Gertjan KosterVisiting Scientist from U. Twente, Netherlands

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MBS Machine

Return

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In 2004, There was a Problem…

• Stanford wanted its fair share of the stock sale windfall– The Stanford license to EPRI called for

royalties…but there were no royalties!– It was mutually agreed that a 10% cash

payment ($250 K) would settle matters– But there was no assurance that the money

would go to GLAM– Both parties agreed that EPRI would fund a

$250 K, 3-year, research effort on a “mutually interesting project.”

• EPRI’s CEO and CFO signed such an agreement with Stanford in 3Q04.

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“Possible High Tc Superconductivity in the Ba-La-Cu-O System,” Georg

Bednorz and K. Alex Mueller, IBM, 17th April 1986

“At the extreme forefront of research in superconductivity is the empirical search for new materials”

M. R. Beasley, 1985

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+ +

+ +•e-

+ +

+ +•e-

Superconductivity 101C ooper P r ob lem

2

s ingle particles

pairs

e ik r1

e -ik r2

H(k) + H(-k) + V(k)

V(k) = -V0 0 k f dk e ik(r

1 - r

2)

(r1-r2) = (r1-r2)(s 1,s 2)

2 e-2/N(E f)V 0

F er m ion -B oson F eynm an D iagr am

q

k1

k'1

k2

k'2

)/1exp( 14.1 DCT

(Niobium) K 5.9

,28.0

,K 275

C

D

T

)/1exp( 14.1 DCT

(Niobium) K 5.9

,28.0

,K 275

C

D

T

•-• eeee

Characteristic Boson Temperatures

• 300 K for phonons (LTSC)

• 500 K for magnons (HTSC ??)

• 11,000 K for excitons (RTSC ??)

• 109 K for gluons (quarks in neutron stars)

Fermion-Boson Coupling Constant

• Want this as big as possible

• Be near a critical point in LRO

• Look for materials with this property

• e.g., with metastable LRO

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What to Do?

• The “mother liquor” of HTSC is in the doped copper – oxygen bond– The most basic form of copper oxide is the

mineral tenorite, monoclinic in structure– Yet repeated attempts over the years to “dope

it” resulted in nothing “interesting.”

• Ted Geballe had had a long-standing idea– Try to use IBAD to force CuO into a metastable

cubic phase (near an LRO critical point)– Then dope it and something “interesting”

might show up!

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Tenorite (Monoclinic CuO)

CuO

Return

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CuO as Cubic MgO

Cu

O

Return

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Comparison of Tenorite (111) to CuO – MgO Proxy (100)

(111) Tenorite (100) MgO

Return

O

Cu

O

Cu

Cu

O

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Initial Experimental Results

Initial RHEED Pattern showing monoclinic CuO

on STO Substrate

IBAD Assist Beam Turned On – Almost Cubic Growth Already! (slight tetragonal distortion)

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IBAD – RHEED Port Positions

IBAD Gun, Present Position used to IBAD MgO for YBCO growth

IBAD Gun, Required New Position for 25 V Ar+, O+ targeting CuO growth on MgO, STO

RHEED Electron Gun Port, 25 kV, Beam directed

into figure toward substrate

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Results & Future Plans

• Initial results encouraging…CuO grows epi on STO and MgO for several monolayers with no assist

• Then switches to tenorite phase with thickness

• IBAD seems to give tetragonally distorted cubic structure

• Resume experimental runs when new ion gun shield in place

• Undertake doping (probably Ca) at an appropriate stage

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Theory & Modeling

• Apply Density Functional Theory to search for possible “quasi-stable” CuO structures– 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry– Essentially an exact calculation of the physical

and chemical properties of s-p electron molecules, solids and liquids (don’t need to go to the lab anymore!)

– Extensively used by the pharmaceutical industry to search for new drugs

• Concentrate on cubic “proxy structures,” e.g., MgO, STO, NiO, ZrO…– Employ commercial CASTEP software under

license to Stanford

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“CuO – MgO Proxy” Converged Energies

CuO & CuO - MgO Proxies (Primitive Cells)

-1789.89

-1789.84

-1789.79

-1789.74

-1789.69

-1789.64

-1789.59

-1789.54

-2% -1% -1% 0% 1% 1% 2%

Departure from MgO Unit Cell (%)

En

erg

y (e

V)/

Cu

O

-1%a (MgO)

1%a MgO)0%

a (MgO)

CuOTenorite

-1%a (MgO)

1%a MgO)0%

a (MgO)

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Trial Runs Convergence PropertiesConvergence Summary

-10

-8

-6

-4

-2

0

2

4

0 20 40 60 80 100

Iterations

log

10(a

bs(

del

ta-E

))

Tenorite

0% MgO

-1% MgO

+1% MgO

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The effect of low energy Ar+ ion bombardment on epitaxy and oxidation of thin films of CuOx

Gertjan Koster1, Hideki Yamamoto1,2, Wolter Siemons1,3, Arturas Vailionis1, R.H. Hammond1, P.M. Grant4, T.H. Geballe1 and M. Beasley1

1Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan3Inorganic Materials Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Twente University, The Netherlands4W2AGZ Technologies, Palo Alto, CA

Here we present a detailed study on the growth of epitaxial CuOx thin films on single crystal substrates (MgO and SrTiO3) by MBE. In situ photo electron spectroscopy (XPS and UPS) is used to establish the

degree of oxidation of Cu, while in situ electron diffraction (LEED and RHEED) monitor the crystal structure of the growing thin film. We particularly pay attention to the valence state of Cu and the crystal symmetry as influenced by a combination of the substrate, activated oxygen and a flux of low energy Ar+ ions. We observe a rich variety of epitaxial relationships as a function of the flux ratios of three species on the substrate surface (ie, Cu, O* and Ar+) which will be used to explore the possibility of the highest crystal symmetry achievable in CuOx system. The relationship between (electronic) properties and crystal structure

is being investigated at different lengths using scanning probes. Although the copper system is the focus of this paper, we will also address whether such an approach is feasible for other oxide materials.This work is supported by DOE, EPRI and Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VENI).

III. Paper Submitted to:The 12th International Workshop on Oxide Electronics

Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA October 2-5, 2005

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