https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050331
Charge density wave transport in submicron antidot arrays in NbSe3
1
Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses
Températures, Laboratoire associé à l'Université Joseph Fourier,
CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
2
Institut of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Mokhovaya 11, 103907 Moscow, Russia
Corresponding author: a monceau@labs.polycnrs-gre.fr
Received:
25
November
1997
Revised:
30
March
1998
Accepted:
6
April
1998
Published online: 15 June 1998
We demonstrate for the first time that a periodic array of submicrometer
holes (antidots) can be patterned into thin single NbSe3 crystals. We
report on the study of Charge Density Wave (CDW) transport of the network
of mesoscopic units between antidots. Size of the elementary
unit can be as small as 0.5 μm along the chain axis and
in cross-section. We observe size effects for
Ohmic residual resistance and in CDW transport current-voltage
characteristics in submicronic networks.
PACS: 71.45.Lr – Charge-density-waves systems / 73.20.Mf – Collective excitations (including plasmons and other charge-density excitations) / 73.23.Ps – Other electronic properties of mesoscopic systems
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1998
