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@INPROCEEDINGS{Gunel:133834,
author = {Gunel, Yusuf and Batov, Igor and Hardtdegen, Hilde and
Sladek, Kamil and Winden, Andreas and Weis, Karl and
Panaitov, Gregory and Grützmacher, Detlev and Schäpers,
Thomas},
title = {{S}upercurrent and {M}agnetoresistance {O}scillations
in{N}b/{I}n{A}s-{N}anowire/{N}b {J}osephson junctions},
reportid = {FZJ-2013-02225},
year = {2012},
abstract = {One of the common goals in semiconductor/superconductor
hybrid de-vices is to fabricate Schottky barrier free
contacts at the interface of the two materials.[1] The
natural formation of an electron accumu-lation layer on InAs
surfaces prohibits the formation of a Schottky barrier.
Therefore this material became the most preferred one for
semiconducting weak links in Josephson junctions. This
unique prop-erty of InAs in combination with the bottom-up
growth approach of nanowires, led to many interesting
experiments, e.g. tunable super-currents or Cooper pair beam
splitters.[3] In these experiments aluminum (Al) was used as
a superconducting material, which has a low critical
temperature (Tc) and a low critical magnetic eld (Bc). As an
alternative, we have used superconduct-ing Niobium (Nb) with
a high Tc and Bc that oers the advantage to study Josephson
properties in dierent regimes. In this report, we have used
InAs nanowires with two dierent bulk carrier
concentra-tions, i.e. 10 18 cm 3 (low doped) and 10 19 cm 3
(highly doped). The contacting process of Nb electrodes has
been realized by standard electron beam lithography. We
systematically investigated the basic Josephson properties,
i.e. the eect of temperature, magnetic eld and electric eld
on the super-current through InAs nanowires. By taking
advantage of the high Tc ( 9:3K) of the superconducting Nb,
we were able to measure a super-current up to 4.0K. The
highest critical current Ic 100nA has been measured at 0.4K
for a junctions with a highly doped InAs nanowire. For low
doped nanowire Josephson junctions, a full control of the
su-percurrent has been achieved by applying a gate bias. We
have found a monotonous dependence of the measured critical
current in the pres-ence of a perpendicular magnetic eld
rather than a Fraunhofer-like diraction pattern. The
experimental results have been compared to a recent
theoretical model of Ref.[4] In addition, we studied the
supercur-rent and conductance uctuations as a function of
gate voltage. Here, a remarkable enhancement of the
conductance uctuation amplitude has been observed. In the
last part, we have studied the magnetore-sistance
oscillations in the voltage state of Josephson junctions.
[1] Th. Schapers, Superconductor/Semiconductor Junctions,
174 (Springer Tracts on Modern Physics, 2001) [2] Y.-J. Doh,
J. A. van Dam, A. L. Roest, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, L. P.
Kouwenhoven, and S. D. Franceschi, Science 309, 272 (2005)
[3] L. Hofstetter, S. Csonka, J. Nygard, and C.
Schonenberger, Na-ture 461, 960 (2009) [4] J. C. Cuevas and
F. S. Bergeret, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217002 (2007)},
month = {Jul},
date = {2012-07-27},
organization = {International Conference on the
Physics of Semiconductors 2012, Zürich
(CH), 27 Jul 2012 - 3 Aug 2012},
subtyp = {After Call},
cin = {PGI-9 / PGI-8},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-9-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-8-20110106},
pnm = {422 - Spin-based and quantum information (POF2-422)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-422},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/133834},
}