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The Josephson effect represents perhaps the prototype of macroscopic phase coherence and is at the basis of the most widespread interferometer, i.e., the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Yet, in analogy to electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 F. Giazotto , M. J. Martinez-Perez

Introduction of a Josephson field effect transistor (JoFET) concept sparked active research on proximity effects in semiconductors. Induced superconductivity and electrostatic control of critical current has been demonstrated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zhong Wan , Aleksandr Kazakov , Michael J. Manfra , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Leonid P. Rokhinson

Recent studies have shown that the critical currents of several metallic superconducting nanowires and Dayem bridges can be locally tuned using a gate voltage {V_g}. Here, we report a gate-tunable Josephson junction structure constructed…

Metallic nanoparticles offer possibilities to build basic electric devices with new functionality and improved performance. Due to the small volume and the resulting low self-capacitance, each single nanoparticle exhibits a high charging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Hauke Lehmann , Svenja Willing , Sandra Möller , Mirjam Volkmann , Christian Klinke

The electric field induced quantum phase transition from topological to conventional insulator has been proposed as the basis of a topological field effect transistor [1-4]. In this scheme an electric field can switch 'on' the ballistic…

Superconductivity has been investigated for over a century, but there are still open questions about what determines the critical current; the maximum current a superconductor can carry before switching to its normal state. For a given…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-12-31 Heng Wu , Yaojia Wang , Mazhar N. Ali

Ionic gating is a very popular tool to investigate and control the electric charge transport and electronic ground state in a wide variety of different materials. This is due to its capability to induce large modulations of the surface…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-27 Erik Piatti

A dual mode device behaving either as a field-effect transistor or a single electron transistor (SET) has been fabricated using silicon-on-insulator metal oxide semiconductor technology. Depending on the back gate polarisation, an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Benoît Roche , Benoit Voisin , Xavier Jehl , Romain Wacquez , Marc Sanquer , Maud Vinet , Veeresh Deshpande , Bernard Previtali

The continuous down-scaling of transistors has been the key to the successful development of current information technology. However, with Moore's law reaching its limits, the development of alternative transistor architectures is urgently…

In semiconductor electronics, the field-effect refers to the control of electrical conductivity in nanoscale devices, which underpins the field-effect transistor, one of the cornerstones of present-day semiconductor technology. The effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Ilia Golokolenov , Andrew Guthrie , Sergey Kafanov , Yuri Pashkin , Viktor Tsepelin

Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) based on 2D materials are promising steep sub-threshold swing (SS) devices due to their tight gate control. There are two major methods to create the tunnel junction in these 2D TFETs: electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Gerhard Klimeck , Joerg Appenzeller , Rajib Rahman

This letter presents the bulk diamond field-effect transistor (FET) with the highest current value reported at this moment. The goal was to drastically increase the current of this type of device by increasing the total gate width thanks to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Damien Michez , Juliette Letellier , Imane Hammas , Julien Pernot , Nicolas C. Rouger

Superconducting diode effects (SDEs) occur in systems with asymmetric critical supercurrents $|I^c_+|\neq |I^c_-|$ yielding dissipationless flow in one direction $(e.g., +)$, while dissipative transport in the opposite direction $(-)$. Here…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-21 Xian-Peng Zhang

We present theory of dc Josephson effect in contacts between Fe-based and spin-singlet $s$-wave superconductors. The method is based on the calculation of temperature Green's function in the junction within the tight-binding model. We…

A transition in source-drain current vs back gate voltage ID - VBG characteristics from extrinsic polar molecule dominant hysteresis to anti-hysteresis induced by an oxygen deficient surface layer that is intrinsic to the ferroelectric thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Chunrui Ma , Youpin Gong , Rongtao Lu , Emery Brown , Beihai Ma , Jun Li , Judy Wu

The temperature and electric field dependence of electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity (TC) of a granular superconductor is considered within a 3D model of inductive Josephson junction arrays. In addition to a low-temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei Sergeenkov

In this study, we examined the supercurrent diode effect (SDE) in mesoscopic superconducting weak links formed by asymmetric Dayem bridges. These planar metallic constrictions, which naturally exhibit Josephsonlike behavior, offer a…

In this work, we demonstrate a silicon nanocrystal Field Effect Transistor (ncFET). Its operation is similar to that of a Tunnelling Field Effect Transistor (TFET) with two barriers in series. The tunnelling barriers are fabricated in very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Patrick Harvey-Collard , Dominique Drouin , Michel Pioro-Ladrière

We theoretically study the behavior of the critical current of a thermally-biased tunnel Josephson junction with a particular design, in which the electrodes of the junction are enclosed in two different superconducting loops pierced by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-20 Claudio Guarcello , Roberta Citro , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Braggio

The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in single-layer iron selenide has generated significant experimental interest for optimizing the superconducting properties of iron-based superconductors through the lattice…