TY - STD AU - Saveskul, N. A. AU - Titova, N. A. AU - Baeva, E. M. AU - Semenov, A. V. AU - Lubenchenko, A. V. AU - Saha, S. AU - Reddy, H. AU - Bogdanov, S. I. AU - Marinero, E. E. AU - Shalaev, V. M. AU - Boltasseva, A. AU - Khrapai, V. S. AU - Kardakova, A. I. AU - Goltsman, G. N. PY - 2019 DA - 2019// TI - Superconductivity behavior in epitaxial TiN films points at surface magnetic disorder AB - We analyze the evolution of the normal and superconducting electronic properties in epitaxial TiN films, characterized by high Ioffe-Regel parameter values, as a function of the film thickness. As the film thickness decreases, we observe an increase of in the residual resistivity, which becomes dominated by diffusive surface scattering for d≤20nm. At the same time, a substantial thickness-dependent reduction of the superconducting critical temperature is observed compared to the bulk TiN value. In such a high quality material films, this effect can be explained by a weak magnetic disorder residing in the surface layer with a characteristic magnetic defect density of ∼1012cm−2. Our results suggest that surface magnetic disorder is generally present in oxidized TiN films. UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.05009v3 N1 - exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1278), last updated on Sat, 08 May 2021 15:19:32 -0500 ID - Saveskul_etal2019 ER -