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Graphene's exceptional electronic mobility, gate-tunability, and contact transparency with superconducting materials make it ideal for exploring the superconducting proximity effect. However, the work function difference between graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Seong Jang , Geon-Hyoung Park , Sein Park , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee

Coupling superconductors to quantum Hall edge states is the subject of intense investigation as part of the ongoing search for non-abelian excitations. Our group has previously observed supercurrents of hundreds of picoamperes in graphene…

Imperfections change essentially the electronic transport properties of graphene. Motivated by a recent experiment reporting on the possible application of graphene as junctions, we study transport properties in graphene-based junctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

We theoretically reveal the unusual features of the Josephson effect in a strained zigzag graphene nanoribbon with a small length relative to the superconducting coherence length and an arbitrary width. We find a step-wise variation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Leyla Majidi , Reza Asgari

Graphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Markus Kindermann , M. Y. Chou

We fabricate superconductor-graphene-superconductor Josephson junctions with superconducting regions made of lead (Pb). The critical current through grapehene may be modulated by external magnetic field; the resulting Fraunhofer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 I. V. Borzenets , U. C. Coskun , H. Mebrahtu , G. Finkelstein

We fabricate and investigate high quality graphene devices with contactless, suspended top gates, and demonstrate formation of graphene pnp junctions with tunable polarity and doping levels. The device resistance displays distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 Jairo Velasco , Gang Liu , Wenzhong Bao , Chun Ning Lau

We study the Josephson current in long ballistic superconductor-monolayer graphene-superconductor junctions. As a first step, we have developed an efficient computational approach to calculate the Josephson current in tight-binding systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Péter Rakyta , Andor Kormányos , József Cserti

The Josephson effect is one of the most studied macroscopic quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics and has been an essential part of the quantum technologies development over the last decades. It is already used in many applications…

In this study, we examine multiple encapsulated graphene Josephson junctions to determine which mechanisms may be responsible for the supercurrent observed in the quantum Hall (QH) regime. Rectangular junctions with various widths and…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has recently emerged as a highly tunable two-dimensional (2D) material platform exhibiting a wide range of phases, such as metal, insulator, and superconductor states. Local electrostatic control…

In the past two years, magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a uniquely versatile experimental platform that combines metallic, superconducting, magnetic and insulating phases in a single crystal. In particular the ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Folkert K. de Vries , Elias Portoles , Giulia Zheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Peter Rickhaus

Titov and Beenakker [Phys. Rev. B 74, 041401(R) (2006)] found, by solving the Dirac-Bogoliubov-De-Gennes equation, that the product of critical current and normal-state resistance for superconductor-graphene-superconductor (S-g-S) Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Adam Rycerz

Two-dimensional systems that host one-dimensional helical states are exciting from the perspective of scalable topological quantum computation when coupled with a superconductor. Graphene is particularly promising for its high electronic…

Recent progress has enabled the controlled fabrication of domain walls (DWs) in graphene, which host topological kink states. Meanwhile, reliable techniques for constructing graphene-based Josephson junctions have been established. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Xia'an Du , Junjie Qi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

We present a novel method to establish inner point contacts on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) encapsulated graphene heterostructures with dimensions as small as 100 nm by pre-patterning the top-hBN in a separate step prior to dry-stacking. 2…

We fabricate Josephson field-effect-transistors in germanium quantum wells contacted by superconducting aluminum and demonstrate supercurrents carried by holes that extend over junction lengths of several micrometers. In superconducting…

Linear conductance of junctions formed by graphene flakes with order of nanometer-thick electrodes attached at the corners of the flakes is studied. The explored structures have sizes up to 20000 atoms and the conductance is studied as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Martin Konôpka

We study the electron transport through a graphene nanoribbon-superconductor junction. Both zigzag and armchair edge graphene nanoribbons are considered, and the effects of the magnetic field and disorder on the transport property are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The tunability of superconducting magic-angle twisted-layer graphene films elevates this material system to a promising candidate for superconducting electronics. We implement a gate-tuned Josephson junction in a magic-angle twisted…