Niobium oxides and niobates physical properties: Review and prospects

C Nico, T Monteiro, MPF Graça - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
For the last 75 years several studies have been reporting on the physical properties of
niobium oxides, but there is still many contradictory, inconsistent and insufficient information …

Nano superconducting quantum interference device: A powerful tool for nanoscale investigations

C Granata, A Vettoliere - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The magnetic sensing at nanoscale level is a promising and interesting research topic of
nanoscience. Indeed, magnetic imaging is a powerful tool for probing biological, chemical …

Nanoscale materials patterning and engineering by atomic force microscopy nanolithography

XN **e, HJ Chung, CH Sow, ATS Wee - Materials Science and …, 2006 - Elsevier
This review article aims to provide an updated and comprehensive description on the
development of atomic force microscopy (AFM) nanolithography for structuring and …

From micro-to nano-SQUIDs: applications to nanomagnetism

W Wernsdorfer - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to a growing interest in quantum information processing based on spin systems, the
micro-SQUID technique has been finding new interest and fabrication improvements have …

NanoSQUIDs: Basics & recent advances

M José Martínez-Pérez, D Koelle - Physical Sciences Reviews, 2017 - degruyter.com
Abstract Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are one of the most
popular devices in superconducting electronics. They combine the Josephson effect with the …

Development of a niobium nanosuperconducting quantum interference device for the detection of small spin populations

SKH Lam, DL Tilbrook - Applied physics letters, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Electron-beam lithography and reactive ion etching have been used to fabricate thin-film
Au/Nb bridges with widths 50nm. The Au layer was used as both a mask for etching the Nb …

Why NanoSQUIDs are important: an introduction to the focus issue

CP Foley, H Hilgenkamp - Superconductor science and …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Nano-scale superconducting interference devices, known as nanoSQUIDs, are an emerging
research area that has been attracting a lot of attention in recent years. This is an …

Josephson diode effect in monolithic dc-SQUIDs based on 3D Dayem nanobridges

A Greco, Q Pichard, F Giazotto - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
It was recently experimentally proved that the superconducting counterpart of a diode, ie, a
device that realizes nonreciprocal Cooper pairs transport, can be realized by breaking the …

Micro-superconducting quantum interference device characteristics

K Hasselbach, D Mailly, JR Kirtley - Journal of applied physics, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the dependence on field and temperature of the critical current of micro
superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs): SQUIDs with diameters as small …

Detection of magnetic moments using a nano-SQUID: limits of resolution and sensitivity in near-field SQUID magnetometry

V Bouchiat - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the coupling efficiency of a localized magnetic moment placed at a distance z
from a DC-SQUID magnetometer of loop radius a with nanobridges of cross section r 2 …