We have used the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique followed by post-annealing process with magnesium vapor at 700 ◦C for 30 min to grow a high-quality CrO2/MgB2 bilayer prepared on Al2O3 (1102) single crystal. The X-ray diffraction patterns showed high-quality orientated growth of MgB2 phase. The obtained films were approximately 300 nm thick and had lateral dimensions of 5×5mm2. SQUID magnetometry, magneto-optical Faraday microscopy, and magneto-transport techniques were used in order to measure the critical current density (JC) that was found to be 7–9 × 106 A/cm2 at 15 K.

We have discovered occurrence of strong narrow spectral lines in gold nanoparticles deposited on fluorine-doped tin oxide substrates at wavelengths 410, 440 and 550 nm under influence of 808 nm wavelength laser illumination with power about 200 mW. These lines appear just after the 1 s of illumination and are almost unchanged during all the remaining time of illumination. Such lines are absent for the other content of gold nanoparticlesmodified substrates. So a principle role here is played by the inter-particle distances.