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We have investigated electrical transport in a diffusive multiwalled carbon nanotube contacted using superconducting leads made of Al/Ti sandwich structure. We find proximity-induced superconductivity with measured critical currents up to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Tsuneta , L. Lechner , P. J. Hakonen

The significance of the superconducting diode effect lies in its potential application as a fundamental component in the development of next-generation superconducting circuit technology. The stringent operating conditions at low…

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Superconducting electronics represents a promising technology, offering not only efficient integration with quantum computing systems, but also the potential for significant power reduction in high-performance computing. Nonetheless, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-24 Leon Ruf , Angelo Di Bernardo , Elke Scheer

Superconducting diodes enable dissipationless directional transport, yet achieving electrical tunability and scalability remains a major challenge for circuit-level integration. Here, we demonstrate an electrothermal-switch superconducting…

Non-reciprocal charge transport in supercurrent diodes (SDs) polarized growing interest in the last few years for its potential applications in superconducting electronics (SCE). So far, SD effects have been reported in complex hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto

Superconducting field-effect transitor (SuFET) and Josephson field-effect transistor (JoFET) technologies take advantage of electric field induced control of charge carrier concentration in order to modulate the channel superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-21 Federico Paolucci , Giorgio De Simoni , Elia Strambini , Paolo Solinas , Francesco Giazotto

We investigate the tunneling conductance of superconductor-insulator-normal metal (SIN) and superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) heterostructures with one superconducting side of the junction that is electrically driven and can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-18 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

We develop a robust and versatile platform to define nanostructures at oxide interfaces via patterned top gates. Using LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ as a model system, we demonstrate controllable electrostatic confinement of electrons to nanoscale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Srijit Goswami , Emre Mulazimoglu , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Andrea D. Caviglia

We study the effect of gate-induced electric fields on the properties of semiconductor-superconductor hybrid nanowires which represent a promising platform for realizing topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Andrey E. Antipov , Arno Bargerbos , Georg W. Winkler , Bela Bauer , Enrico Rossi , Roman M. Lutchyn

Quantized conductance is reported in high-crystalline tin oxide (SnO2) nanobelt back-gate field-effect transistors, at low temperatures. The quantized conductance was observed as current oscillations in the drain current vs. gate voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 E. R. Viana , J. C. Gonzalez , G. M. Ribeiro , A. G. de Oliveira

We realize a superconducting nanodevice in which vortex traps in the form of an aluminum square are integrated with a Dayem nanobridge. We perform field-cooling of the traps arriving to different vortex configurations, dependent on the…

Non-reciprocity in the critical current has been observed in a variety of superconducting systems and has been called the superconducting diode effect. The origin underlying the effect depends on the symmetry breaking mechanisms at play. We…

The layered semimetal WTe_2 has recently been found to be a two-dimensional topological insulator (2D TI) when thinned down to a single monolayer, with conducting helical edge channels. We report here that intrinsic superconductivity can be…

The demand for low-power devices is on the rise as semiconductor engineering approaches the quantum limit and quantum computing continues to advance. Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors, thanks to their rich physical properties, hold…

Developing a gate-tunable, scalable, and topologically-protectable supercurrent qubit and integrating it into a quantum circuit are crucial for applications in the fields of quantum information technology and topological phenomena. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-06 Hong-Seok Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

Besides its fundamental interest, understanding the dynamics of pair breaking in superconducting nanostructures is a central issue to optimize the performances of superconducting devices such as qubits or photon detectors. However, despite…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-02 T. Jalabert , E. F . C. Driessen , F. Gustavo , J. L. Thomassin , F. Levy-Bertrand , C. Chapelier

Superconducting circuits have attracted growing interest in recent years as a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Extensive efforts have always been taken to completely shield these circuits from external…

We demonstrate an Al superconducting quantum interference device in which the Josephson junctions are implemented through gate-controlled proximitized Cu mesoscopic weak-links. The latter behave analogously to genuine superconducting metals…

We report on the first realization of Nb-based \textit{all-metallic} gated Dayem nano-bridge field-effect transistors (Nb-FETs). These Josephson devices operate up to a temperature of $\sim 3$ K, and exhibit full suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Giorgio De Simoni , Claudio Puglia , Francesco Giazotto

We report conductance and supercurrent of InAs nanowires coupled to Al-superconducting electrodes with short channel lengths and good Ohmic contacts. The nanowires are suspended 15\,nm above a local gate electrode. The charge density in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-10 Simon Abay , Daniel Persson , Henrik Nilsson , H. Q. Xu , Mikael Fogelström , Vitaly Shumeiko , Per Delsing