Heavily boron-doped, diamond films can become superconducting with critical temperatures T-c well above 4 K. Here we first measure the reflectivity of such a film down to 5 cm(-1), by also using coherent synchrotron radiation. We thus determine the optical gap 2 Delta, the field penetration depth lambda, the range of action of the Ferrell-Glover-Tinkham sum rule, and the electron-phonon spectral function alpha F-2(omega). We conclude that diamond behaves as a dirty BCS superconductor.

Low-energy electrodynamics of superconducting diamond

Lupi S;
2006

Abstract

Heavily boron-doped, diamond films can become superconducting with critical temperatures T-c well above 4 K. Here we first measure the reflectivity of such a film down to 5 cm(-1), by also using coherent synchrotron radiation. We thus determine the optical gap 2 Delta, the field penetration depth lambda, the range of action of the Ferrell-Glover-Tinkham sum rule, and the electron-phonon spectral function alpha F-2(omega). We conclude that diamond behaves as a dirty BCS superconductor.
2006
INFM
97
THIN-FILMS
TEMPERATURE
1
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
262
Ortolani, M; Lupi, S; Baldassarre, L; Schade, U; Calvani, P; Takano, Y; Nagao, M; Takenouchi, T; Kawarada, H
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