Fast track to the overdoped regime of superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films via electrochemical oxidation
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| author | Stangl, Alexander Kethamkuzhi, Aiswarya Roussel, Hervé Pop, Cornelia Obradors, Xavier Puig, Teresa Burriel, Mónica Badel, Arnaud |
| author_facet | Stangl, Alexander Kethamkuzhi, Aiswarya Roussel, Hervé Pop, Cornelia Obradors, Xavier Puig, Teresa Burriel, Mónica Badel, Arnaud |
| contents | High temperature superconductors, especially YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ (YBCO), are considered a key enabling technology towards a clean energy future. Hole doping in YBCO is a prerequisite for the emergence of its unchallenged superconducting properties. Up to now, research was focused on the under- and optimally doped region, due to practical limitations in reaching the overdoped state, despite being highly interesting from fundamental and applied aspects as competing orders vanish and critical current densities are expected to peak. Here, we deploy for the first time an electrochemical method to access the mostly uncharted overdoped region. We demonstrate precise control over the bulk oxygen concentration in YBCO thin films across the full off-stoichiometry window (0$\leδ\le$1) using electrochemical oxidation combined with in situ XRD and electrical measurements. Resulting high doping states and critical current densities are confirmed using a multi modal approach, including x-ray diffraction, electrical, Hall and magnetic characterization. Thus, this work opens a promising pathway based on electrochemical oxidation towards electronically clean, oxygen overdoped cuprate superconductors and therefore will assist to further push the critical current density to its intrinsic limit. |
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| spellingShingle | Fast track to the overdoped regime of superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films via electrochemical oxidation Stangl, Alexander Kethamkuzhi, Aiswarya Roussel, Hervé Pop, Cornelia Obradors, Xavier Puig, Teresa Burriel, Mónica Badel, Arnaud Superconductivity High temperature superconductors, especially YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ (YBCO), are considered a key enabling technology towards a clean energy future. Hole doping in YBCO is a prerequisite for the emergence of its unchallenged superconducting properties. Up to now, research was focused on the under- and optimally doped region, due to practical limitations in reaching the overdoped state, despite being highly interesting from fundamental and applied aspects as competing orders vanish and critical current densities are expected to peak. Here, we deploy for the first time an electrochemical method to access the mostly uncharted overdoped region. We demonstrate precise control over the bulk oxygen concentration in YBCO thin films across the full off-stoichiometry window (0$\leδ\le$1) using electrochemical oxidation combined with in situ XRD and electrical measurements. Resulting high doping states and critical current densities are confirmed using a multi modal approach, including x-ray diffraction, electrical, Hall and magnetic characterization. Thus, this work opens a promising pathway based on electrochemical oxidation towards electronically clean, oxygen overdoped cuprate superconductors and therefore will assist to further push the critical current density to its intrinsic limit. |
| title | Fast track to the overdoped regime of superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin films via electrochemical oxidation |
| topic | Superconductivity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01146 |