Aligned carbon nanotubes sandwiched in epitaxial NbC film for enhanced superconductivity

Yingying Zhang; Filip Ronning; Krzysztof Gofryk; Nathan. A. Mara; Nestor Haberkorn; Guifu Zou; Haiyan Wang; Joon H. Lee; Eve Bauer; Thomas M. McCleskey; Anthony K. Burell; Leonardo Civale; Y. T. Zhu; Quanxi Jia

doi:10.1039/C2NR11906D

Aligned carbon nanotubes sandwiched in epitaxial NbC film for enhanced superconductivity

Yingying Zhang,*^ab Filip Ronning,^a Krzysztof Gofryk,^a Nathan. A. Mara,^a Nestor Haberkorn,^a Guifu Zou,^a Haiyan Wang,^c Joon H. Lee,^c Eve Bauer,^a Thomas M. McCleskey,^a Anthony K. Burell,^a Leonardo Civale,^a Y. T. Zhu^d and Quanxi Jia*^a

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^a Division of Materials Physics and Applications, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
E-mail: qxjia@lanl.gov

^b Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
E-mail: yingyingzhang@tsinghua.edu.cn

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

^d Department of Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

Abstract

Highly aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) ribbons were sandwiched in epitaxial superconducting NbC films by a chemical solution deposition method. The incorporation of aligned long CNTs into NbC film enhances the normal-state conductivity and improves the superconducting properties of the assembly.

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Aligned carbon nanotubes sandwiched in epitaxial NbC film for enhanced superconductivity

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