Abstract
Ion implantation of normally insulating polymers offers an alternative to depositing conjugated organics onto plastic films to make electronic circuits. We used a 50 keV nitrogen ion beam to mix a thin 10 nm SnSb alloy film into the subsurface of polyetheretherketone and report the low temperature properties of this material. We observed metallic behavior, and the onset of superconductivity below 3 K. There are strong indications that the superconductivity does not result from a residual thin film of alloy, but instead from a network of alloy grains coupled via a weakly conducting, ion-beam carbonized polymer matrix.
Department(s)
JVIC-Center for Biomedical and Life Sciences
Physics, Astronomy, and Materials Science
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2358190
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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Applied Physics Letters and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2358190.
Publication Date
10-20-2006
Recommended Citation
Micolich, A. P., E. Tavenner, B. J. Powell, A. R. Hamilton, M. T. Curry, R. E. Giedd, and P. Meredith. "Superconductivity in metal-mixed ion-implanted polymer films." Applied physics letters 89, no. 15 (2006): 152503.
Journal Title
Applied Physics Letters
