Hard superconducting gap in germanium

oleh: Alberto Tosato, Vukan Levajac, Ji-Yin Wang, Casper J. Boor, Francesco Borsoi, Marc Botifoll, Carla N. Borja, Sara Martí-Sánchez, Jordi Arbiol, Amir Sammak, Menno Veldhorst, Giordano Scappucci

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01

Deskripsi

The difficulty in obtaining a superconducting gap free of subgap states has hindered progress with hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices in germanium. Here, this challenge is addressed by using a germanosilicide parent superconductor to contact high mobility planar germanium, facilitating scalable quantum information processing.