We have prepared and investigated superconducting and medium- and high-entropy alloys in form of thin films with thicknesses of 600, 100, and 30 nm, and compared their properties with bulk counterparts. We show that the superconducting transition temperature as well as the upper critical magnetic field decrease with decreasing thickness. Application of hydrostatic pressure up to 33 kbar on the 600-nm film shows a decrease of with pressure, which differs from that observed on bulk sample. However, no clear dependence was observed if pressure was applied on the 100-nm film. This result is most likely related to increasing disorder (tendency to structure amorphization) in thinner films. Moreover, we performed point-contact spectroscopy measurements on the 600-nm and films and were able to observe directly the temperature development of the superconducting energy gap and determine the superconducting coupling strength and , respectively, which is consistent with that of conventional -wave phonon-mediated Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superconductors.
1 November 2020 in Journal of Alloys and Compounds