Abstract
Resistance versus temperature characteristics of superconducting films have been studied for decades, and are still considered an important subject of condensed matter physics. They have recently received increased attention, primarily motivated by electromagnetic metamaterial strategy, which has been used in the implementation of one-dimensional microwave transmission lines with high-temperature superconducting films. In some of the recent works, it has been argued that the physical measurement of these curves is a strenuous and costly process, which becomes tedious when incessantly performed for a wide range of parameters. Contemplating on their significance, in this work, we propose a resistance–temperature curves approximation framework using three different artificial neural networks architectures, and carry out a detailed comparison between the variants in terms of the accuracy they achieve. We demonstrate that the mean-squared error, between the approximated and the physically measured curves, is negligible, which justifies extrapolation of these curves over a wide range of parameters using the proposed framework.
•A resistance-temperature curves approximation framework for a superconducting film is proposed.•The framework exploits three different artificial neural networks architectures.•A detailed comparison between the three variants in terms of accuracy is carried out and presented.•The mean-squared error, between the approximated and the measured curves, is negligible.•Our results justify extrapolation of the curves over a wide range of parameters.