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The ability to tune material properties using gate electric field is at the heart of modern electronic technology. It is also a driving force behind recent advances in two-dimensional systems, such as gate-electric-field induced…

It was recently demonstrated the possibility to tune, through the application of a control gate voltage, the superconducting properties of mesoscopic devices based on Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer metals. In spite of the several experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Claudio Puglia , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto

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

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

Recently, short channel effects (SCE) and power consumption dissipation problems pose big challenges which need imperative actions to be taken to deal with for field effect transistor to further scale down as semiconductor technology enters…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Laixiang Qin , Chunlai Li , Ziang Xie , Yiqun Wei , Jin He

Recent experiments suggest the possibility to tune superconductivity in metallic nanowires by application of modest gate voltages. It is largely debated whether the effect is due to an electric field at the superconductor surface or small…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-13 M. F. Ritter , N. Crescini , D. Z. Haxell , M. Hinderling , H. Riel , C. Bruder , A. Fuhrer , F. Nichele

A nonmonotonic dependence of the critical Josephson supercurrent on the injection current through a normal metal/ferromagnet weak link from a single domain ferromagnetic strip has been observed experimentally in nanofabricated planar…

Superconductor-based light-emitting diode (superconductor-based LED) in strong light-confinement regime are characterized as a superconductor-based three-terminal device, and its transport properties are quantitatively investigated. In the…

In Josephson diodes the asymmetry between positive and negative current branch of the current-phase relation leads to a polarity-dependent critical current and Josephson inductance. The supercurrent nonreciprocity can be described as a…

The investigation of the switching current probability distribution of a Josephson junction is a conventional tool to gain information on the phase slips dynamics as a function of the temperature. Here we adopt this well-established…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 C. Puglia , G. De Simoni , F. Giazotto

We develop theoretical arguments that demonstrate the possibility of metallic field-effect transistors (METFET's) in one-dimensional systems and particularly in armchair carbon nanotubes. A very inhomogeneous electric field, such as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-12 Slava V. Rotkin , Karl Hess

A numerical model based on a lumped circuit element approximation for a bi-superconducting quantum interference device (bi-SQUID) operating in the presence of an external magnetic field is presented in this paper. Included in the model is…

An electrostatic field, which is applied to a gated high-temperature superconducting (HTSC) film, is believed to affect the film similar to charge doping. Analyzing the pairing in terms of a t-J model, we show that a coupling to electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalia Pavlenko , Thilo Kopp

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent flow in a Josephson junction consisting of two spin-split superconductors combined by a normal metal weak link. The normal metal may be driven out of equilibrium, thus modifying the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-06 Chi Sun , Jacob Linder

When the electron density of highly crystalline thin films is tuned by chemical doping or ionic liq- uid gating, interesting effects appear including unconventional superconductivity, sizeable spin-orbit coupling, competition with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 G. Dezi , N. Scopigno , S. Caprara , M. Grilli

InSb nanoflags, due to their intrinsic spin-orbit interactions, are an interesting platform in the study of planar Josephson junctions. Ballistic transport, combined with high transparency of the superconductor/semiconductor interfaces, was…

The discovery that a gate electrode suppresses the supercurrent in purely metallic systems is missing a complete physical understanding of the mechanisms at play. We here study the origin of this reduction in a Superconductor-Normal…

The Josephson effect describes supercurrent flowing through a junction connecting two superconducting leads by a thin barrier [1]. This current is driven by a superconducting phase difference $\phi$ between the leads. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 D. B. Szombati , S. Nadj-Perge , D. Car , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

The interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism has long been pursued as a route to unconventional Josephson effects, yet suitable material platforms remain limited. Here we report Josephson junctions based on epitaxial…

The effect of electrostatic gating on metallic elemental superconductors was recently demonstrated in terms of modulation of the switching current and control of the current phase relation in superconducting quantum interferometers. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-28 Claudio Puglia , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto