Nano superconducting quantum interference device: A powerful tool for nanoscale investigations

C Granata, A Vettoliere - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The magnetic sensing at nanoscale level is a promising and interesting research topic of
nanoscience. Indeed, magnetic imaging is a powerful tool for probing biological, chemical …

NanoSQUIDs: Basics & recent advances

M José Martínez-Pérez, D Koelle - Physical Sciences Reviews, 2017 - degruyter.com
Abstract Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) are one of the most
popular devices in superconducting electronics. They combine the Josephson effect with the …

Expansion of a superconducting vortex core into a diffusive metal

VS Stolyarov, T Cren, C Brun, IA Golovchanskiy… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Vortices in quantum condensates exist owing to a macroscopic phase coherence. Here we
show, both experimentally and theoretically, that a quantum vortex with a well-defined core …

Controlling IV Hysteresis in Al/Pt Bilayer Symmetric SQUIDs at Millikelvin Temperatures

DS Yakovlev, IA Nazhestkin, NG Ismailov, SV Egorov… - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
We study operation of a superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) based on
a new bilayer material. They can be used for the ultra-sensitive detection of magnetic …

Controlling hysteresis in superconducting constrictions with a resistive shunt

N Kumar, CB Winkelmann, S Biswas… - Superconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate control of the thermal hysteresis in superconducting constrictions by adding
a resistive shunt. In order to prevent thermal relaxation oscillations, the shunt resistor is …

Existence of Shapiro steps in the dissipative regime in superconducting weak links

CD Shelly, P See, I Rungger, JM Williams - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
We present measurements of microwave-induced Shapiro steps in a superconducting
nanobridge weak link in the dissipative branch of a hysteretic current-voltage characteristic …

Weak link nanobridges as single flux quantum elements

CD Shelly, P See, J Ireland, EJ Romans… - Superconductor …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper investigates the feasibility of using weak link nanobridges as Josephson junction
elements for the purpose of creating Josephson circuits. We demonstrate the development …

On-chip integrable planar NbN nanoSQUID with broad temperature and magnetic-field operation range

I Holzman, Y Ivry - AIP Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are used for applications ranging
from sensitive magnetometers to low-temperature electronics and quantum computation …

Calculation and measurement of critical temperature in thin superconducting multilayers

S Zhao, DJ Goldie, CN Thomas… - Superconductor …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We have applied the Usadel equations to thin-film multilayer superconductors, and have
calculated the critical temperature for a general thin-film superconductor–superconductor …

Physics of superconducting travelling-wave parametric amplifiers

S Zhao - 2022 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Superconducting travelling-wave parametric amplifiers (TWPAs) are ultra-low-noise
amplifiers that achieve amplification through the nonlinear kinetic inductance of …