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Temperature-dependent quasiparticle recombination lifetimestexp(T) and densitiesN0 of electronic states at the Fermi level have been measured from time decay experiments of excess quasiparticle concentrations in evaporated, superconducting Al- and Pb-tunnel junctions. Current pulses were used to inject excess, nonthermal quasiparticles in a single junction acting simultaneously as generator and detector. The experimental lifetimes in “unperturbed” Al show satisfactory agreement with calculations based on the 2?-phonon trapping lifetime model.texp decreases with increasing perturbations of the Al film structure by oxygen background evaporation. In Pb the measured times indicate 2?-phonon volume losses. The densitiesN0 in Pb-films and “unperturbed” as well as oxygen-perturbed Al-films differ by less than 5% from the corresponding bulk material data. Therefore, in trying to explain the enhancement of the transition temperature from 1.23 K to 1.85 K in perturbed, granular Al-films a change ofN0 can be ruled out.

zeitschrift füur physik b condensed matter

Measurements of effective quasiparticle recombination times and of densities of electronic states at the Fermi level in superconducting Al- and Pb-films