Superconducting Long-Range Proximity Effect through the Atomically Flat Interface of a Bi2Te3 Topological Insulator

VS Stolyarov, S Pons, S Vlaic… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report on structural and electronic properties of superconducting nanohybrids made of
Pb grown in the ultrahigh vacuum on the atomically clean surface of single crystals of …

Local Josephson vortex generation and manipulation with a Magnetic Force Microscope

VV Dremov, SY Grebenchuk, AG Shishkin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Josephson vortices play an essential role in superconducting quantum electronics devices.
Often seen as purely conceptual topological objects, 2 π-phase singularities, their …

Approaching depairing current in dirty thin superconducting strip covered by low resistive normal metal

SS Ustavschikov, MY Levichev… - Superconductor …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We experimentally demonstrate that a thin dirty superconducting (S) strip covered by low
resistive normal metal (N) approaches closer to the depairing current than a single S strip …

Enhancement of the vortex critical velocity in superconducting/normal metal bilayers

G Blatter, M Sirena, N Haberkorn - Materials Science and Engineering: B, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the influence of normal metal thickness on the Larkin-Ovchinnikov
(LO) instability in superconductor/normal metal heterostructures. Bilayers were fabricated …