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Traces of superconducting correlations in nanographite films

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The review of structural, electronic and magnetic properties of nanographite films is presented. The superconducting correlations such as AC-to-DC conversion associated with the reversed Josephson Effect, pinning of vortices on columnar topological structure of film surface observed in atomic force and magnetic force microscope, non-zero current at zero voltage in scanning tunneling microscope in local area of nanographite film surface have been found. These results are broadly in line with other our observations on abrupt resistivity jump accompanied by light emission having potential applications as switchers and compact light emitter. Further experiments on studies of local conductivity related to ion irradiation hoping to find a zero resistance state are proposed.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Prof. P. Esquinazi from the Division of Superconductivity and Magnetism, Institute for Experimental Physics II of Leipzig University for technical support in AFM and MFM measurements and Dr. V.V. Kolesov from the Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Sciences for the help in STM measurements. This work was supported by grants of RFBR No 05-08-17909-a, 06-02-27323-з, 06-08-99003-с and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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Lebedev, S.G. Traces of superconducting correlations in nanographite films. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 20883–20898 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-04603-0

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