Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of St Andrews, Scotland
- Provides an in-depth description of focused ion beam (FIB) microstructuring fabrication techniques
- Showcases how novel transport device architectures can be tailored to answer specific research questions
- Describes a generic approach to spatially manipulating electronic order on a micrometer length scale
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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This thesis presents pioneering work in the relatively new field of focused ion beam (FIB) sculpting of single crystals to produce bespoke devices and enable the investigation of physics that cannot be studied in bulk samples. It begins with a comprehensive and didactic account of how to achieve this sculpting, revealing the ‘tricks of the trade’ of state-of-the-art FIB microstructuring. In subsequent chapters, the author presents ground-breaking results obtained from microstructures of the delafossite oxide metal PdCoO2 and the heavy fermion superconductor CeIrIn5. In these elegant, forefront experiments, a new form of directional ballistic transport in the ultra-pure delafossites is described and explained. Furthermore, a new way to spatially modulate superconductivity induced by strain is demonstrated with electrical transport measurements that agree well with predictions based on thermoelastic finite element simulations.
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Book Title: Manipulating Anisotropic Transport and Superconductivity by Focused Ion Beam Microstructuring
Authors: Maja D. Bachmann
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51362-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51361-0Published: 29 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51364-1Published: 29 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51362-7Published: 28 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 153
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
Topics: Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity, Materials Science, general