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Highly transmissive ballistic junctions are demonstrated between Nb and the two-dimensional electron gas formed at an InAs/AlSb heterojunction. A reproducible fabrication protocol is presented yielding high critical supercurrent values.…

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

The Josephson junction is the fundamental nonlinear building block of superconducting quantum technologies. Its macroscopic quantum tunneling physics underpins superconducting quantum computing, sensing, and communication, but scaling these…

We present ferromagnetic Nb/Al2O3/Ni60Cu40/Nb Josephson junctions (SIFS) with an ultrathin Al2O3 tunnel barrier. The junction fabrication was optimized regarding junction insulation and homogeneity of current transport. Using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Weides , K. Tillmann , H. Kohlstedt

Nb/Al_2O_3/Ni_{0.6}Cu_{0.4}/Nb based superconductor-insulator-ferromagnet-superconductor (SIFS) Josephson tunnel junctions with a thickness step in the metallic ferromagnetic \Ni_{0.6}\Cu_{0.4} interlayer were fabricated. The step was…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Weides , C. Schindler , H. Kohlstedt

We propose a new type of a transition edge sensor based on an Al/AlOx/Ti/AlOx/Al superconductor - insulator - superconductor - insulator - superconductor (SIS'IS) structure. It exhibits sharp dependence of zero bias resistance on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Timothé Faivre , Dmitry Golubev , Jukka P. Pekola

Multiterminal Josephson junctions are a promising platform to host synthetic topological phases of matter and Floquet states. However, the energy scales governing topological protection in these devices are on the order of the spacing…

Josephson junction transistors and 50-junction arrays with linear junction dimensions from 200 nm down to 70 nm were fabricated from standard Nb/AlOx/Nb trilayers. The fabrication process includes electron beam lithography, dry etching,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Dolata , H. Scherer , A. B. Zorin , J. Niemeyer

We have developed a fabrication process for nanoscale tunnel junctions which includes focused-ion-beam etching from different directions. By applying the process to a Nb/(Al-)Al_2O_3/Nb trilayer, we have fabricated a Nb single-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michio Watanabe , Yasunobu Nakamura , Jaw-Shen Tsai

We report development and measurement of a micro-fabricated compact high-temperature superconducting (HTS) metamaterial atom operating at a frequency as low as $\sim$ 53MHz. The device is a planar spiral resonator patterned out of a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-09 Behnood G. Ghamsari , John Abrahams , Steven M. Anlage

We introduce a novel method for fabricating all-aluminum Josephson junctions with highly transmitted conduction channels. Such properties are typically associated with structures requiring intricate fabrication processes, such as atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 J. Griesmar , H. Riechert , M. Hantute , A. Peugeot , S. Annabi , Ç. Ö. Girit , G. O. Steffensen , A. L. Yeyati , E. Arrighi , L. Bretheau , J. -D. Pillet

We implemented, optimized and fully tested over multiple runs a superconducting Josephson junction fabrication process tailored for the integrated digital circuits that are used for control and readout of superconducting qubits operating at…

We theoretically put forward the concept of a phase-controlled superconducting heat-flux quantum modulator. Its operation relies on phase-dependent heat current predicted to occur in temperature-biased Josephson tunnel junctions. The device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 F. Giazotto , M. J. Martinez-Perez

Transport properties of high quality Nb/semiconductor/Nb long Josephson junctions based on metamorphic In_0.75Ga_0.25As epitaxial layers are reported. Different junction geometries and fabrication procedures are presented that allow a…

We report on transport properties of Josephson junctions in hybrid superconducting-topological insulator devices, which show two striking departures from the common Josephson junction behavior: a characteristic energy that scales inversely…

We propose the use of a laser beam tightly focused on a superconducting strip to create a Josephson junction by photothermal effect. The critical current of this junction can be easily controlled by the laser intensity. We show that a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-30 W. Magrini , S. Mironov , A. Rochet , P. Tamarat , Alexandre I. Buzdin , B. Lounis

Since its recent foundation, phase-coherent caloritronics has sparkled continuous interest giving rise to numerous concrete applications. This research field deals with the coherent manipulation of heat currents in mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Claudio Guarcello , Paolo Solinas , Alessandro Braggio , Francesco Giazotto

Van der Waals (vdW) Josephson junctions can possibly accelerate the development of advanced superconducting device that utilizes the unique properties of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) superconductors such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-11-17 Chuanwen Zhao , Xin Yi , Qiao Chen , Chengyu Yan , Shun Wang

We study the thermodynamic properties of a superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junction {in the short limit}. Owing to the proximity effect, such a junction constitutes a thermodynamic system where {phase difference},…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-16 Francesco Vischi , Matteo Carrega , Alessandro Braggio , Pauli Virtanen , Francesco Giazotto

A superconductor-normal metal-superconductor mesoscopic Josephson junction has been realized in which the critical current is tuned through normal current injection using a symmetric electron cooler directly connected to the weak link. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Savin , J. P. Pekola , J. T. Flyktman , A. Anthore , F. Giazotto