Progress in superconductor-semiconductor topological Josephson junctions

WF Schiela, P Yu, J Shabani - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Majorana bound states (MBSs) are quasiparticles that are their own antiparticles. They are
predicted to emerge as zero-energy modes localized at the boundary of a topological …

Germanium-based hybrid semiconductor-superconductor topological quantum computing platforms: Disorder effects

K Laubscher, JD Sau, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
It was recently suggested that proximitized gate-defined Ge hole nanowires could serve as
an alternative materials platform for the realization of topological Majorana zero modes …

Open Electrochemical Liquid Phase Epitaxial Growth of Crystalline Ge Films

JP Hazelnis, TT Nguyen, H Wu… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Room temperature and ambient pressure electrochemical liquid phase epitaxy (ec-LPE) of
macroscopic Ge (100) films using uncompressed liquid metal electrodes has been …

[HTML][HTML] Pit-formation in germanium homoepitaxial layers

M Oezkent, Y Liu, CH Lu, T Boeck, KP Gradwohl - Surface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
With increasing importance of germanium (Ge) for semiconductor quantum technologies, the
necessity of growing defect-free Ge films has become crucial. Here, Ge homoepitaxial …