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Josephson junctions form the core circuit element in superconducting quantum computing circuits, single flux quantum digital logic circuits, and sensing devices such as SQUIDs. Aluminum oxide has typically been used as the tunnel barrier.…

A superconducting transmon qubit resilient to strong magnetic fields is an important component for proposed topological and hybrid quantum computing (QC) schemes. Transmon qubits consist of a Josephson junction (JJ) shunted by a large…

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Superconductor-based light-emitting diode (superconductor-based LED) in strong light-confinement regime are characterized as a superconductor-based three-terminal device, and its transport properties are quantitatively investigated. In the…

Superconducting optoelectronic hardware is being explored as a path towards artificial spiking neural networks with unprecedented scales of complexity and computational ability. Such hardware combines integrated-photonic components for…

The elemental Nb is mainly investigated for its eminent superconducting properties. In contrary, we report of a relatively unexplored property, namely, its superior optoelectronic property in reduced dimension. We demonstrate here that…

The superconducting diode effect has garnered significant interest due to its prospective applications in cryogenic electronics and computing, enabling directional supercurrent transport. This phenomenon has been demonstrated across various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 L. Borgongino , R. Seoane Souto , A. Paghi , G. Senesi , K. Skibinska , L. Sorba , E. Riccardi , F. Giazotto , E. Strambini

We present a way to We present a way to fabricate bicrystal Josephson junctions of high-Tc cuprate superconductors that does not require bulk bicrystalline substrates. Based on vector substrate technology, this novel approach makes use of a…

Aluminum-based Josephson junctions are currently the main sources of nonlinearity for control and manipulation of superconducting qubits. A phase-slip junction, the dual of a Josephson junction, provides an alternative source of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-09 Cheeranjeev Purmessur , Kaicheung Chow , Bernard van Heck , Angela Kou

Josephson junctions with iron pnictides open the way for fundamental experiments on superconductivity in these materials and their application in superconducting devices. Here, we present hybrid Josephson junctions with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-10 S. Schmidt , S. Döring , F. Schmidl , V. Grosse , P. Seidel , K. Iida , F. Kurth , S. Haindl , I. Mönch , B. Holzapfel

We suggest a single-photon thermal detector based on the abrupt jump of the critical current of a temperature-biased tunnel Josephson junction formed by different superconductors, working in the dissipationless regime. The electrode with…

We report on the fabrication and electrical transport properties of superconducting junctions made of \beta-Ag$_{2}$Se topological insulator (TI) nanowires in contact with Al superconducting electrodes. The temperature dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Jihwan Kim , Bum-Kyu Kim , Hong-Seok Kim , Ahreum Hwang , Bongsoo Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

A new technique is presented which enables the fabrication of highly transparent Josephson junctions in combination with mesoscopic devices. We utilize a modified AFM tip to plough grooves into superconducting material, thus defining a weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Irmer , F. Simmel , R. H. Blick , H. Lorenz , J. P. Kotthaus , M. Bichler , W. Wegscheider

We propose a novel Josephson device in which 0 and $\pi$ states are controlled by an electrical current. In this system, the $\pi$ state appears in a superconductor/normal metal/superconductor junction due to the non-local spin accumulation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yamashita , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

Implementing superconductors capable of proximity-inducing a large energy-gap in semiconductors in the presence of strong magnetic fields is a major goal towards applications of semiconductor/superconductor hybrid materials in future…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Bilal Kousar , Damon J. Carrad , Lukas Stampfer , Peter Krogstrup , Jesper Nygård , Thomas S. Jespersen

Nanoribbons - nanometer wide strips of a two-dimensional material - are a unique system in condensed matter physics. They combine the exotic electronic structures of low-dimensional materials with an enhanced number of exposed edges, where…

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transitional metal dichalcogenides, have attracted tremendous amount of attention over the past decade due to their extraordinary thermal, electrical and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

We develop a technique to overcome phase-mismatch in Josephson-junction traveling wave parametric amplifiers in order to achieve high gain over a broad bandwidth. Using "resonant phase matching," we design a compact superconducting device…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-15 Kevin O'Brien , Chris Macklin , Irfan Siddiqi , Xiang Zhang

We investigate electronic transport in Josephson junctions formed by single-walled carbon nanotubes coupled to superconducting electrodes. We observe enhanced zero-bias conductance (up to 10e^2/h) and pronounced sub-harmonic gap structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 Y. Zhang , G. Liu , C. N. Lau

We define superconducting constrictions by ploughing a deposited Aluminum film with a scanning probe microscope. The microscope tip is modified by electron beam deposition to form a nano-plough of diamond-like hardness, what allows the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Irmer , R. H. Blick , F. Simmel , W. Goedel , H. Lorenz , J. P. Kotthaus

The primary impediment to continued improvement of charge-based electronics is the excessive energy dissipation incurred in switching a bit of information. With suitable choice of materials, devices made of multiferroic composites, i.e.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Kuntal Roy