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We present an experimental and theoretical investigation of coherent current transport in wide ballistic superconductor-two dimensional electron gas-superconductor junctions. It is found experimentally that upon increasing the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Samuelsson , A. Ingerman , G. Johansson , E. V. Bezuglyi , V. S. Shumeiko , G. Wendin , R. Kursten , A. Richter , T. Matsuyama , U. Merkt

Superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) junction provides a unique platform to study relativistic electrodynamics of Dirac fermions combined with proximity-induced superconductivity. We report observation of the Josephson effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dongchan Jeong , Jae-Hyun Choi , Gil-Ho Lee , Sanghyun Jo , Yong-Joo Doh , Hu-Jong Lee

Growth of graphene on monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides presents opening on band gap and giant spin-orbit coupling which paves the way to achieve a useful hybrid structure for electronics and spintronics applications. Increase of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 S. F. Ebadzadeh , H. Goudarzi , M. Khezerlou

A blueprint for producing scalable digital graphene electronics has remained elusive. Current methods to produce semiconducting-metallic graphene networks all suffer from either stringent lithographic demands that prevent reproducibility,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Hicks , A. Tejeda , A. Taleb-Ibrahimi , M. S. Nevius , F. Wang , K. Shepperd , J. Palmer , F. Bertran , P. Le Fèvre , J. Kunc , W. A. de Heer , C. Berger , E. H. Conrad

Current noise in superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions is calculated within the scattering theory of multiple Andreev reflections (MAR). It is shown that the noise exhibits subharmonic gap singularities at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Naveh , D. V. Averin

The two-dimensional nature of graphene makes it an ideal platform to explore proximity-induced unconventional planar superconductivity and the possibility of topological superconductivity. Using Green's functions techniques, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Oscar E. Casas , Shirley Gómez Páez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera

In a mesoscopic superconductor - normal metal - superconductor (SNS) heterostructure the quasiparticle distribution can be driven far from equilibrium by a voltage applied across the normal metal. This reduces the supercurrent between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank K. Wilhelm , Gerd Schön , Andrei D. Zaikin

Transport properties through wide and short ballistic graphene junctions are studied in the presence of arbitrary dopings and magnetic fields. No dependence on the magnetic field is observed at the Dirac point for any current cumulant, just…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose , Bernhard Wunsch , Francisco Guinea

An energy gap can be opened in the electronic spectrum of graphene by lifting its sublattice symmetry. In bilayers, it is possible to open gaps as large as 0.2 eV. However, these gaps rarely lead to a highly insulating state expected for…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, composed of single atomic layers, have attracted vast research interest since the breakthrough discovery of graphene. One major benefit of such systems is the simple ability to tune the chemical potential by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-01 Gopi Nath Daptary , Eyal Walach , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman

A graphene superlattice is formed by a one-dimensional periodic potential and is characterized by the emergence of new Dirac points in the electronic structure. The group velocity of graphene's massless Dirac fermions at the new points is…

The subgap conductivity of a normal-superconductor (NS) tunnel junction is thought to be due to tunneling of two electrons. There is a strong interference between these two electrons, originating from the spatial phase coherence in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. W. J. Hekking , Yu. V. Nazarov

We explore the behavior of the ac admittance of superconductor-normal metal-superconductor (SNS) junctions as the phase difference of the order parameters between the superconductors is varied. We find three characteristic regimes, defined…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-21 Pauli Virtanen , F. Sebastián Bergeret , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Tero T. Heikkilä

We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a normal-insulator-superconductor (NIS) junction of silicene in the thin barrier limit. Similar to graphene the tunneling conductance in such NIS structure exhibits an oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Surajit Sarkar , Arijit Saha , Suhas Gangadharaiah

We study the low-energy electronic structure of heterostructures formed by one sheet of graphene placed on a monolayer of ${\rm NbSe_2}$. We build a continuous low-energy effective model that takes into account the presence of a twist angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Yohanes S. Gani , Hadar Steinberg , Enrico Rossi

We report the first comparative study of the properties of two-dimensional arrays and single superconducting film - normal wire - superconducting film (SNS) junctions. The NS interfaces of our SNS junctions are really high transparent, for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Tatyana. I. Baturina , Z. D. Kvon , A. E. Plotnikov

We study theoretically the current-voltage characteristics (IVCs) of the Josephson field effect transistor - a ballistic SNINS junction with superconducting (S) electrodes confining a planar normal metal region (N), which is controlled by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-01 E. V. Bezuglyi , E. N. Bratus' , V. S. Shumeiko

We investigate quantum transport in a normal/superconductor graphene heterostructure, including the possibility of an anisotropic pairing potential in the superconducting region. We find that under certain circumstances, the conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Linder , A. Sudbø

We study the nonlinear transport properties of NS (normal-superconductor) and NSN structures by means of a self-consistent microscopic description. A nonzero superfluid velocity causes the various quasiparticle channels within S to open at…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 J. Sánchez Cañizares , F. Sols

We have investigated low-temperature transport properties of two-dimensional arrays of superconductor--normal-metal--superconductor (SNS) junctions. It has been found that in two-dimensional arrays of SNS junctions (i) a change in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. I. Baturina , Yu. A. Tsaplin , A. E. Plotnikov , M. R. Baklanov