A chemical solution approach for superconducting and hard epitaxial NbC film

Guifu Zou; Hongmei Luo; Yingying Zhang; Jie Xiong; Qiangmin Wei; Mujin Zhuo; Junyi Zhai; Haiyan Wang; Darrick Williams; Nan Li; Eve Bauer; Xinghang Zhang; Thomas M McCleskey; Yanrong Li; Anthony K Burrell; Q X Jia

doi:10.1039/c0cc01295e

A chemical solution approach for superconducting and hard epitaxial NbC film

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Nov 7;46(41):7837-9. doi: 10.1039/c0cc01295e. Epub 2010 Sep 9.

Authors

Guifu Zou¹, Hongmei Luo, Yingying Zhang, Jie Xiong, Qiangmin Wei, Mujin Zhuo, Junyi Zhai, Haiyan Wang, Darrick Williams, Nan Li, Eve Bauer, Xinghang Zhang, Thomas M McCleskey, Yanrong Li, Anthony K Burrell, Q X Jia

Affiliation

¹ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA. gfzou@lanl.gov

PMID: 20830332
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc01295e

Abstract

Epitaxial NbC thin films were grown by a chemical solution technique, polymer assisted deposition. High quality epitaxial NbC film showed a transition temperature of 10 K and a hardness of 19.54 GPa.