ISSN:
1573-7357
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract Aluminum, indium, and lead fine particles with free surfaces were made by evaporation in helium gas to study the size dependence of the superconducting transition temperatureT c in very small particles. The transition temperature was determined from the change of diamagnetic susceptibility with temperature. The present experiment shows thatT c rises with decrease of the average diameter $$\bar d$$ for aluminum and indium, while it remains nearly constant for lead. The enhancement factorsT c /T c b (T c b isT c for the bulk material) in the case of $$\bar d = 100 {\AA}$$ are determined as 1.45, 1.15, and 1.0 for aluminum, indium, and lead, respectively. The effect of the soft phonon mode arising from the increasing fraction of surface satisfactorily explains the experiment with respect to both the size dependence and the difference among elements by a rather simple model.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00654622
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