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Nanoscale superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are fabricated in-situ from a single Bi$_{0.26}$Sb$_{1.74}$Te$_{3}$ nanoribbon that is defined using selective-area growth and contacted with superconducting Nb electrodes via…

Controlling both the amplitude and phase of the quantum order parameter ({\psi}) in nanostructures is important for next-generation information and communication technologies. The long-range coherence of attractive electrons in…

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A novel scanning probe technique is presented: Scanning microSQUID Force microscopy (SSFM). The instrument features independent topographic and magnetic imaging. The SSFM operates in a dilution refrigerator in cryogenic vacuum. Sample and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Veauvy , D. Mailly , K. Hasselbach

The realization of a topological qubit calls for advanced techniques to readily and reproducibly engineer induced superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires. Here, we introduce an on-chip fabrication paradigm based on shadow walls that…

Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) is a nanoscale imaging technique that can utilize several powerful contrast mechanisms for the quantitative mapping of chemical and physical materials properties. Spatial resolutions down to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-27 Simone Finizio , Benjamin Watts , Benedikt Rösner , Tim A. Butcher , Sebastian Wintz , Markus Weigand , Jörg Raabe

The discovery of two-dimensional superconductivity in LaAlO3/KTaO3 (111) and (110) interfaces has raised significant interest in this system. In this manuscript we report the first successful fabrication of a superconducting quantum…

Scanning Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) microscopy is a powerful tool for imaging local magnetic properties of materials and devices, but it requires a low-vibration cryogenic environment, traditionally achieved by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-04 Logan Bishop-Van Horn , Zheng Cui , John R. Kirtley , Kathryn A. Moler

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a nonlinear optical response arising exclusively from broken inversion symmetry in the electric-dipole limit. Recently, SHG has attracted widespread interest as a versatile and noninvasive tool for…

We report the fabrication and characterization of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) based on InAs nanowires and vanadium superconducting electrodes. These mesoscopic devices are found to be extremely robust against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-06 Panayotis Spathis , Subhajit Biswas , Stefano Roddaro , Lucia Sorba , Francesco Giazotto , Fabio Beltram

We have studied a Superconducting Quantum Interference SQUID device made from a single layer thin film of superconducting silicon. The superconducting layer is obtained by heavily doping a silicon wafer with boron atoms using the Gas…

Superconducting microcalorimeters, such as superconducting transition-edge sensors and magnetic microcalorimeters, have emerged as state-of-the-art detectors for X-ray emission spectroscopy by combining near-unity quantum efficiency with…

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Cryogenic microcalorimeters are outstanding tools for X-ray spectroscopy due to their unique combination of excellent energy resolution and close to 100% detection efficiency. While well-established microcalorimeter concepts have already…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-15 Constantin Schuster , Sebastian Kempf

A seven-channel system capable of performing both magnetoencephalography (MEG) and ultra-low-field magnetic resonance imaging (ULF MRI) is described. The system consists of seven second-order SQUID gradiometers with 37 mm diameter and 60 mm…

We calculate the flux threading the pick-up coil of a square SQUID magnetometer in the presence of a current dipole source. The result reproduces that of a circle coil magnetometer calculated by Wikswo with only small differences. However…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 S Rombetto , A Vettoliere , C Granata , M Russo , C Nappi

Mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy is a well-established technique for non-destructive quantitative molecular analysis. Waveguide-integrated sensors provide a particularly compact solution operating with reduced sample volumes while…

Considering the growing interest in magnetic materials for unconventional computing, data storage, and sensor applications, there is active research not only on material synthesis but also characterisation of their properties. In addition…

We have fabricated arrays of High-T$_c$ Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) with randomly distributed loop sizes as sensitive antennas for Radio-Frequency (RF) waves. These sub-wavelength size devices known as…

A seamless chip-to-world photonic interface enables wide-ranging advancements in optical ranging, display, communication, computation, imaging, and light-matter interaction. An optimal solution allows for 2D scanning of a…

We report a novel lensless on-chip microscopy platform based on near-field blind ptychographic modulation. In this platform, we place a thin diffuser in between the object and the image sensor for light wave modulation. By blindly scanning…

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