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Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor (S-F-S) Josephson junctions were fabricated by making a narrow cut through a S-F double layer using direct writing by Focused Ion Beam (FIB). Due to a high resolution (spot size smaller than 10 nm)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 V. M. Krasnov , O. Ericsson , S. Intiso , P. Delsing , V. A. Oboznov , A. S. Prokofiev , V. V. Ryazanov

Modern Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are commonly fabricated from either Al or Nb electrodes, with an in-situ oxidation process to create a weak link between them. However, common problems of such planar nano- and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-18 Liam S. Farrar , Aimee Nevill , Zhen Jieh Lim , Geetha Balakrishnan , Sara Dale , Simon J. Bending

Arrays of Vortex Transitional (VT) memory cells with functional density up to $1 Mbit/cm^2$ have been designed, fabricated, and successfully demonstrated. This progress is due to recent advances in design optimization and in superconductor…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Vasili K. Semenov , Yuri A. Polyakov , Sergey K. Tolpygo

Shadow evaporation is commonly used to micro-fabricate the key element of superconducting qubits - the Josephson junction. However, in conventional two-angle deposition circuit topology, unwanted stray Josephson junctions are created which…

Microscopic inhomogeneity within superconducting films is a critical bottleneck hindering the performance and scalability of quantum circuits. All-nitride Josephson Junctions (JJs) have attracted substantial attention for their potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Prachi Garg , Danqing Wang , Hong X. Tang , Baishakhi Mazumder

Gate-tunable Josephson junctions (JJs) are the backbone of superconducting classical and quantum computation. Typically, these systems exploit low charge concentration materials, and present technological diffculties limiting their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Federico Paolucci , Francesco Vischi , Giorgio De Simoni , Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

Designing the spatial profile of the superconducting gap -- gap engineering -- has long been recognized as an effective way of controlling quasiparticles in superconducting devices. In aluminum films, their thickness modulates the gap;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Giampiero Marchegiani , Luigi Amico , Gianluigi Catelani

A current-biased low-temperature superconducting Josephson junction (JJ) is dynamically describable by the quantized motion of a fictitious particle in a "washboard" potential. The long coherence time of tightly-bound states in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Fisch , I. E. Mazets , G. Kurizki

Josephson junctions manufactured to tight tolerances are necessary components for superconducting quantum computing. Developing precise manufacturing techniques for Josephson junctions requires an understanding of their make-up and robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Oscar W. Kennedy , Kevin G. Crawford , Kowsar Shahbazi , Connor D. Shelly

We have developed a novel fabrication process for ultra-small, full-epitaxial NbN Josephson junctions on a silicon (Si) substrate. A full-epitaxial NbN/AlN/NbN tri-layer was grown on a Si (100) wafer with a (200)-oriented TiN buffer layer.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-02 Wei Qiu , Hirotaka Terai

The quality of a superconductor-normal metal-superconductor Josephson junction (JJ) depends crucially on the transparency of the superconductor-normal metal (S/N) interface. We demonstrate a technique for fabricating planar JJs with perfect…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-05 Juewen Fan , Bingyan Jiang , Jiaji Zhao , Ran Bi , Jiadong Zhou , Zheng Liu , Ning Kang , Fanming Qu , Li Lu , Xiaosong Wu

According to the statistical distribution laws, all the elementary particles in the real 3+1-dimensional world must and only be chosen as either bosons or fermions, without exception and not both. Here, we experimentally verified that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 P. H. Ouyang , S. R. He , Y. Z. Wang , Y. Q. Chai , J. X. He , H. Chang , L. F. Wei

Tunneling spectroscopy measurements are reported on optimally-doped and overdoped Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+\delta}$ single crystals. A novel point contact method is used to obtain superconductor-insulator-normal metal (SIN) and SIS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Ozyuzer , C. Kurter , J. F. Zasadzinski , K. E. Gray , D. G. Hinks , N. Miyakawa

In this work, we consider superconductor/flat band material/superconductor (S/FB/S) Josephson junctions (JJs) where the flat band material possesses isolated flat bands with exactly zero Fermi velocity. Contrary to conventional S/N/S JJs…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-14 Zhong C. F. Li , Yuxuan Deng , Shuai A. Chen , Dmitri K. Efetov , K. T. Law

We report our progress in the high-temperature superconductor (HTS) Josephson junction fabrication process founded on using a focused helium ion beam damaging technique and discuss the expected device performance attainable with the HTS…

Niobium offers the benefit of increased operating temperatures and frequencies for Josephson junctions, which are the core component of superconducting devices. However existing niobium processes are limited by more complicated fabrication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Alexander Anferov , Kan-Heng Lee , Fang Zhao , Jonathan Simon , David I. Schuster

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) based on InSb nanoflags have recently emerged as an intriguing platform in superconducting electronics. This letter presents the fabrication and investigation of superconducting quantum interference devices…

Josephson junctions constructed from superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures have been used to realize a variety of voltage-tunable superconducting quantum devices, including qubits and parametric amplifiers. To date…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Utkan Güngördü , Rusko Ruskov , Silas Hoffman , Kyle Serniak , Andrew J. Kerman , Charles Tahan

Reducing materials and processing-induced decoherence is critical to the development of utility-scale quantum processors based on superconducting qubits. Here we report on the impact of two fluorine-based wet etches, which we use to treat…

The narrow bandgap of semiconductors allows for thick, uniform Josephson junction barriers, potentially enabling reproducible, stable, and compact superconducting qubits. We study vertically stacked van der Waals Josephson junctions with…