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The thermopower of mesoscopic normal metal/superconductor structures has been measured at low temperatures. Effect of supercurrent present in normal part of the structure was studied in two cases: when it was created by applied external…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zou , I. Sosnin , P. Virtanen , M. Meschke , V. T. Petrashov , T. T. Heikkila

Josephson current in SFcFS junctions with arbitrary transparency of the constriction (c) is investigated. The emphasis is done on the analysis of the supercurrent dependencies on the misorientation angle $\theta $ between the in-plane…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Zaitsev

Graphene-based Josephson junctions provide a novel platform for studying the proximity effect due to graphene's unique electronic spectrum and the possibility to tune junction properties by gate voltage. Here we describe graphene junctions…

The superconducting diode effect has garnered significant interest due to its prospective applications in cryogenic electronics and computing, enabling directional supercurrent transport. This phenomenon has been demonstrated across various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-19 L. Borgongino , R. Seoane Souto , A. Paghi , G. Senesi , K. Skibinska , L. Sorba , E. Riccardi , F. Giazotto , E. Strambini

Semiconducting diode with nonreciprocal transport effect underlies the cornerstone of contemporary integrated circuits (ICs) technology. Due to isotropic superconducting properties and the lack of breaking of inversion symmetry for…

We demonstrate that in sufficiently long diffusive superconducting-normal-superconducting ($SNS$) junctions dc Josephson current is exponentially suppressed by electron-electron interactions down to zero temperature. This suppression is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Mesoscopic multi-terminal Josephson junctions are novel devices that provide weak coupling between several bulk superconductors through a common normal layer. Because of the nonlocal coupling of the superconducting banks, a current flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. Blais , A. Maassen van den Brink , G. Rose , T. Duty , A. M. Zagoskin

A common issue in low temperature measurements of enhancement-mode metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) in the low electron density regime is the high contact resistance dominating the device impedance. In that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 Laurens H. Willems Van Beveren , Kuan Y. Tan , Nai-Shyan Lai , Oleh Klochan , Andrew S. Dzurak , Alex R. Hamilton

Transport is called nonreciprocal when not only the sign, but also the absolute value of the current, depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. It requires simultaneously broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries, e.g., by the…

The effect of an electric field on the conductance of ultrathin films of metals deposited on substrates coated with a thin layer of amorphous Ge was investigated. A contribution to the conductance modulation symmetric with respect to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Markovic , C. Christiansen , G. Martinez-Arizala , A. M. Goldman

We report the experimental manifestation of even-odd parity effects in the transport characteristics of insulating Josephson junction chains which occur as the superconducting gap is suppressed by applied magnetic fields at millikelvin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Timothy Duty , Karin Cedergren , Sergey Kafanov , Roger Ackroyd , Jared H. Cole

A topological quantum field effect transistor (TQFET) uses electric field to switch a material from topological insulator ("on", with conducting edge states) to a conventional insulator ("off"), and can have low subthreshold swing due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Michael S. Fuhrer , Mark T. Edmonds , Dimitrie Culcer , Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang , Nikhil Medhekar , Yuefeng Yin , Jared H Cole

Hybrid superconductor/semiconductor devices constitute a powerful platform where intriguing topological properties can be investigated. Here we present fabrication methods and analysis of Josephson junctions formed by a high-mobility InAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Stefano Guiducci , Matteo Carrega , Giorgio Biasiol , Lucia Sorba , Fabio Beltram , Stefan Heun

Scalability in the fabrication and operation of quantum computers is key to move beyond the NISQ era. So far, superconducting transmon qubits based on aluminum Josephson tunnel junctions have demonstrated the most advanced results, though…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Tom Doekle Vethaak

A theoretical model of high-T_c Josephson Field Effect Transistors (JoFETs) based on a Ginzburg-Landau free energy expression whose parameters are field- and spatially- dependent is developed. This model is used to explain experimental data…

supr-con · Physics 2009-10-30 J. J. Betouras , R. Joynt , Z. -W. Dong , T. Venkatesan , P. Hadley

We develop a novel field effect transistor (FET) device using solid ion conductor (SIC) as a gate dielectric, and we can tune the carrier density of FeSe by driving lithium ions in and out of the FeSe thin flakes, and consequently control…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-03-08 B. Lei , N. Z. Wang , C. Shang , F. B. Meng , L. K. Ma , X. G. Luo , T. Wu , Z. Sun , Y. Wang , Z. Jiang , B. H. Mao , Z. Liu , Y. J. Yu , Y. B. Zhang , X. H. Chen

Superconducting protected qubits aim to achieve sufficiently low error rates so as to allow realization of error-corrected, utility-scale quantum computers. A recent proposal encodes a protected qubit in the quasicharge degree of freedom of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Nicholas M. Christopher , Deniz E. Stiegemann , Abhijeet Alase , Thomas M. Stace

The continuous miniaturisation of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) from long- to short-channel architectures has advanced beyond the predictions of Moore's Law. Continued advances in semiconductor electronics,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Yusheng Xiong , Kaveh Delfanazari

Superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junctions are known to exist in the $0$ and $\pi$ states with the transitions between them controlled by the temperature and ferromagnetic interlayer thickness. We demonstrate that these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Vargunin , M. A. Silaev

The distinctive quasiparticle distribution existing under nonequilibrium in a superconductor-insulator-normal metal-insulator-superconductor (SINIS) mesoscopic line is proposed as a novel tool to control the supercurrent intensity in a long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Giazotto , T. T. Heikkila , F. Taddei , Rosario Fazio , J. P. Pekola , F. Beltram