Nano Josephson superconducting tunnel junctions in YBa2Cu3O7–δ directly patterned with a focused helium ion beam

SA Cybart, EY Cho, TJ Wong, BH Wehlin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Since the discovery of the high-transition-temperature superconductors (HTSs), researchers
have explored many methods to fabricate superconducting tunnel junctions from these …

Josephson Junctions and SQUIDs Created by Focused Helium-Ion-Beam Irradiation of

B Müller, M Karrer, F Limberger, M Becker… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
By scanning with a 30-keV focused He ion beam (He-FIB) across Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7 (YBCO)
thin-film microbridges, we create Josephson barriers with critical current density jc …

Transport properties of YBCO step edge Josephson junction with different step angles

S Kumar, M Dahiya, N Khare - Applied Physics A, 2024 - Springer
Step edge Josephson junctions are fabricated with varying step angles ranging from 10° to
35° on the MgO (100) single-crystal substrate. The impact of step angle on the transport …

Direct-coupled micro-magnetometer with Y-Ba-Cu-O nano-slit SQUID fabricated with a focused helium ion beam

EY Cho, H Li, JC LeFebvre, YW Zhou, RC Dynes… - Applied physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Direct write patterning of high-transition temperature (high-TC) superconducting oxide thin
films with a focused helium ion beam is a formidable approach for the scaling of high-TC …

Freezing and thawing of artificial ice by thermal switching of geometric frustration in magnetic flux lattices

J Trastoy, M Malnou, C Ulysse, R Bernard… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The problem of an ensemble of repulsive particles on a potential-energy landscape is
common to many physical systems and has been studied in multiple artificial playgrounds …

Scalable nanofabrication of high-quality nanowires for single-photon detectors

P Amari, S Kozlov, E Recoba-Pawlowski… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The realization of superconducting single-photon detectors operating above the liquid-
helium temperature is currently the focus of intense research efforts. Here, we present the …

High-Tc superconducting Josephson mixers for terahertz heterodyne detection

M Malnou, C Feuillet-Palma, C Ulysse, G Faini… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We report on an experimental and theoretical study of the high-frequency mixing properties
of ion-irradiated YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 Josephson junctions embedded in THz antennas. We …

Very Large Scale Integration of Nanopatterned YBa2Cu3O7−δ Josephson Junctions in a Two-Dimensional Array

SA Cybart, SM Anton, SM Wu, J Clarke, RC Dynes - Nano letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
Very large scale integration of Josephson junctions in a two-dimensional series− parallel
array has been achieved by ion irradiating a YBa2Cu3O7− δ film through slits in a …

Nanostructured superconductors

W Lang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.18232, 2023 - arxiv.org
The relevant length scales for superconductivity are of the order of nanometers. By confining
the superconducting condensate to such dimensions, many physical properties change …

Using ion irradiation to make high-Tc Josephson junctions

N Bergeal, J Lesueur, M Sirena, G Faini… - Journal of Applied …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
In this article we describe the effect of ion irradiation on high-T c superconductor thin film
and its interest for the fabrication of Josephson junctions. In particular, we show that these …