The superconducting diode effect

M Nadeem, MS Fuhrer, X Wang - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
A superconducting diode enables supercurrent to flow in only one direction, providing new
functionalities for superconducting circuits. In recent years, there has been experimental …

Progress and prospects in transition-metal dichalcogenide research beyond 2D

T Chowdhury, EC Sadler, TJ Kempa - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
This review discusses recent advances and future research priorities in the transition-metal
dichalcogenide (TMD) field. While the community has witnessed tremendous advances …

WS2 moiré superlattices derived from mechanical flexibility for hydrogen evolution reaction

L **e, L Wang, W Zhao, S Liu, W Huang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The discovery of moiré superlattices (MSLs) opened an era in the research of 'twistronics'.
Engineering MSLs and realizing unique emergent properties are key challenges. Herein, we …

Observation of superconducting diode effect

F Ando, Y Miyasaka, T Li, J Ishizuka, T Arakawa… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical and electrical effects associated with a lack of spatial inversion symmetry
allow direction-selective propagation and transport of quantum particles, such as photons …

Intrinsic superconducting diode effect

A Daido, Y Ikeda, Y Yanase - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Stimulated by the recent experiment [F. Ando, Nature (London) 584, 373 (2020). NATUAS
0028-0836 10.1038/s41586-020-2590-4], we propose an intrinsic mechanism to cause the …

Direct growth of single-chiral-angle tungsten disulfide nanotubes using gold nanoparticle catalysts

Q An, W **ong, F Hu, Y Yu, P Lv, S Hu, X Gan, X He… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes offer a unique platform to explore the
properties of TMD materials at the one-dimensional limit. Despite considerable efforts thus …

Diode effect in Josephson junctions with a single magnetic atom

M Trahms, L Melischek, JF Steiner, B Mahendru… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Observation of the nonlinear Hall effect under time-reversal-symmetric conditions

Q Ma, SY Xu, H Shen, D MacNeill, V Fatemi, TR Chang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The electrical Hall effect is the production, upon the application of an electric field, of a
transverse voltage under an out-of-plane magnetic field. Studies of the Hall effect have led to …

Josephson diode effect in high-mobility InSb nanoflags

B Turini, S Salimian, M Carrega, A Iorio, E Strambini… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report nonreciprocal dissipation-less transport in single ballistic InSb nanoflag
Josephson junctions. Applying an in-plane magnetic field, we observe an inequality in …

Demonstration of a superconducting diode-with-memory, operational at zero magnetic field with switchable nonreciprocity

T Golod, VM Krasnov - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Diode is one of the basic electronic components. It has a nonreciprocal current response,
associated with a broken space/time reversal symmetry. Here we demonstrate prototypes of …