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Understanding the microscopic origin of the gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS) in superconducting nanobridges is crucial for engineering superconducting switches suitable for a variety of electronic applications. The origin of GCS is…

The observation of the gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS) effect in superconducting nanostructures increased the hopes for realizing a superconducting equivalent of semiconductor field-effect transistors. However, recent works attribute…

The application of a gate voltage to control the superconducting current flowing through a nanoscale superconducting constriction, named as gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS), has raised great interest for fundamental and technological…

It was recently discovered that supercurrents flowing through thin superconducting nanowires can be quenched by a gate voltage. This gate control of supercurrents, known as the GCS effect, could enable superconducting transistor logic.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 P. J. Scheidegger , K. J. Knapp , U. Ognjanovic , L. Ruf , S. Diesch , E. Scheer , A. Di Bernardo , C. L. Degen

In conventional metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) electronics, the logic state of a device is set by a gate voltage (VG). The superconducting equivalent of such effect had remained unknown until it was recently shown that a VG can tune the…

In a family of experiments carried on all-metallic supercurrent nano-transistors a surprising gating effect has been recently shown. These include the full suppression of the critical supercurrent, the increase of quasiparticle population,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 M. Rocci , G. De Simoni , C. Puglia , D. Degli Esposti , E. Strambini , V. Zannier , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto

The control of a superconducting current via the application of a gate voltage has been recently demonstrated in a variety of superconducting devices. Although the mechanism underlying this gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS) effect remains…

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

We report on fabrication of single-electron transistors using InAs nanowires with epitaxial aluminium with fixed tunnel barriers made of aluminium oxide. The devices exhibit a hard superconducting gap induced by the proximized aluminium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 M. Taupin , E. Mannila , P. Krogstrup , V. F. Maisi , H. Nguyen , S. M. Albrecht , J. Nygard , C. M. Marcus , J. P. Pekola

Fast cryogenic switches with ultra-low power dissipation are highly sought-after for control electronics of quantum computers, space applications and next generation logic circuits. However, existing high-frequency switches are often bulky,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-08 M. F. Ritter , A. Fuhrer , D. Z. Haxell , S. Hart , P. Gumann , H. Riel , F. Nichele

Contacts between high critical field superconductors and semiconductor nanowires are important in the context of topological quantum circuits in which superconductivity must be sustained to high magnetic fields. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Zhaoen Su , Azarin Zarassi , Binh-Minh Nguyen , Jinkyoung Yoo , Shadi A. Dayeh , Sergey M. Frolov

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

At a superconductor (S)-normal metal (N) junction pairing correlations can "leak-out" into the N region. This proximity effect [1, 2] modifies the system transport properties and can lead to supercurrent flow in SNS junctions [3]. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 S. Roddaro , A. Pescaglini , D. Ercolani , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto , F. Beltram

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…

Recent experiments have shown the possibility of tuning the transport properties of metallic nanosized superconductors through a gate voltage. These results renewed the longstanding debate on the interaction between electrostatic fields and…

Gate tunable junctions are key elements in quantum devices based on hybrid semiconductor-superconductor materials. They serve multiple purposes ranging from tunnel spectroscopy probes to voltage-controlled qubit operations in gatemon and…

The superconductor-insulator transition in two dimensions has been widely investigated as a paradigmatic quantum phase transition. The topic remains controversial, however, because many experiments exhibit a metallic regime with saturating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 C. G. L. Bøttcher , F. Nichele , M. Kjaergaard , H. J. Suominen , J. Shabani , C. J. Palmstrøm , C. M. Marcus

Logic circuits consist of devices that can be controlled between two distinct states. The recent demonstration that a superconducting current flowing in a constriction can be controlled via a gate voltage ($V_G$) - can lead to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-30 Leon Ruf , Elke Scheer , Angelo Di Bernardo

Phase winding effects in hollow semiconductor nanowires with superconducting shells have been proposed as a route to engineer topological superconducting states. We investigate GaAs/InAs core/shell nanowires with half-shells of epitaxial…

Superconducting circuits are promising candidates for future computational architectures, however, practical applications require fast operation. Here, we demonstrate fast, gate-based switching of an Al nanowire-based superconducting switch…

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