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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…

Superconducting thin films and layered crystals display a Nernst signal generated by short-lived Cooper pairs above their critical temperature. Several experimental studies have broadly verified the standard theory invoking Gaussian…

The superconducting diode effect -- the dependence of critical current on its direction -- can arise from the simultaneous breaking of inversion and time-reversal symmetry in a superconductor and has gained interest for its potential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-18 Haixuan Huang , Tatiana de Picoli , Jukka I. Väyrynen

Supercurrent diodes are nonreciprocal electronic elements whose switching current depends on their flow direction. Recently, a variety of composite systems combining different materials and engineered asymmetric superconducting devices have…

Current flow in electronic devices can be asymmetric with bias direction, a phenomenon underlying the utility of diodes and known as non-reciprocal charge transport. The promise of dissipationless electronics has recently stimulated the…

The superconducting diode effect has been recently reported in a variety of systems and different symmetry breaking mechanisms have been examined. However, the frequency range of these potentially important devices still remains obscure. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-02-23 Sara Chahid , Serafim Teknowijoyo , Iris Mowgood , Armen Gulian

The behavior of the transition temperature and critical current density for a Mo/Nb repeated bilayer system as a function of the number of periods was explored. The measured values of the transition temperature are compared to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-25 A. E. Walker , J. Veldhorst , D. M. Myers , Z. McElrath , J. B. Lewis , P. R. Broussard

Superconducting thin-films are central to the operation of many kinds of quantum sensors and quantum computing devices: Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs), Travelling-Wave Parametric Amplifiers (TWPAs), Qubits, and Spin-based Quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-15 Songyuan Zhao , Stafford Withington , David J. Goldie , Chris N. Thomas

Superconducting and normal state properties of sputtered Niobium nanofilms have been systematically investigated, as a function of film thickness in a d=9-90 nm range, on different substrates. The width of the superconducting-to-normal…

The research interest in the supercurrent diode effect (SDE) has been growing. It has been found in various kinds of systems, in a large part of which it may be understood by combining spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field. Here, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-17 James Jun He , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

Superconductor films on semiconductor substrates draw much attention recently since the derived superconductor-based electronics have been shown promising for future data process and storage technologies. By growing atomically uniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Jian Wang , Xu-Cun Ma , Yun Qi , Ying-Shuang Fu , Shuai-hua Ji , Li Lu , X. C. Xie , Jin-Feng Jia , Xi Chen , Qi-Kun Xue

We demonstrate experimentally that the critical current in superconducting NbTiN wires is dependent on their geometrical shape, due to current-crowding effects. Geometric patterns such as 90 degree corners and sudden expansions of wire…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-08 H. L. Hortensius , E. F. C. Driessen , T. M. Klapwijk , K. K. Berggren , J. R. Clem

The Josephson diode effect, where the critical current magnitude depends on its direction, arises when both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken - often achieved by a combination of spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Gerrit Behner , Abdur Rehman Jalil , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas Schäpers

We investigate the origin of matching effect observed in disordered superconducting NbN thin films with periodic array of holes. In addition to the periodic variation in the electrical resistance just above the superconducting transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Sanjeev Kumar , Chandan Kumar , John Jesudasan , Vivas Bagwe , Pradnya Parab , Pratap Raychaudhuri , Sangita Bose

We calculate the non-reciprocal critical current and quantify the supercurrent diode effect in Rashba superconductors with arbitrary disorder, using the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation. The non-reciprocity is caused by the helical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-02 Stefan Ilić , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Superconducting thin metallic films, functioning as supercurrent gate-tunable transistors, have considerable potential for future quantum electronic devices. Despite extensive research, a comprehensive microscopic quantitative mechanism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-21 Giovanni Alberto Ummarino , Alessio Zaccone , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Nonreciprocal transport is generally observed in superconductors in which time reversal and inversion symmetries are simultaneously broken. This effect, which may become one of the backbones for future superconducting electronics, arises…

Key questions for any superconductor include: what is its maximum dissipation-free electrical current (its `critical current') and can this be used to extract fundamental thermodynamic parameters? Present models focus on depinning of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-14 Evgeny F. Talantsev , Wayne P. Crump , Jeffery L. Tallon

We theoretically study the superconducting diode effect in a three-terminal Josephson junction. The diode effect in superconducting systems is typically related to the presence of a difference in the critical currents for currents flowing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-07 Jorge Huamani Correa , Michal P. Nowak

The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is a key nonreciprocal phenomenon with broad relevance for superconducting electronics. Using time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations, we predict and quantify a superconducting diode effect arising…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-18 Axel J. M. Deenen , Dirk Grundler