Growth optimization of TaN for superconducting spintronics

Abstract

We have optimized the growth of superconducting TaN thin films on \ch{SiO2} substrates via dc magnetron sputtering and extract a maximum superconducting transition temperature of $T_{\mathrm{c}}=5$ K as well as a maximum critical field ${\mu }_0{H}_{c2}=(13.8\pm 0.1)$ T. To investigate the impact of spin-orbit interaction in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures, we then analyze the magnetization dynamics of both normal state and superconducting TaN/\ch{Ni80Fe20}(Permalloy, Py)-bilayers as a function of temperature using broadband ferromagnetic resonance (bbFMR) spectroscopy. The phase sensitive detection of the microwave transmission signal is used to quantitatively extract the inverse current-induced torques of the bilayers. The results are compared to our previous study on NbN/Py-bilayers. In the normal state of TaN, we detect a positive damping-like current-induced torque ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{d}}$ from the inverse spin Hall effect (iSHE) and a small field-like torque ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{f}}$ attributed to the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect (iREE) at the TaN/Py-interface. In the superconducting state of TaN, we detect a negative ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{d}}$ attributed to the quasiparticle mediated inverse spin Hall effect (QMiSHE) and the unexpected manifestation of a large positive field-like ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{f}}$ of unknown origin matching our previous results for NbN/Py-bilayers.

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