18 research outputs found
Magnetic field suppression of Andreev conductance at superconductor-graphene interfaces
Studying the interplay between superconductivity and quantum magnetotransport
in two-dimensional materials has been a topic of interest in recent years.
Towards such a goal it is important to understand the impact of magnetic field
on the charge transport at the superconductor-normal channel (SN) interface.
Here we carried out a comprehensive study of Andreev conductance under weak
magnetic fields using diffusive superconductor- graphene Josephson weak links.
We observe that the Andreev conductance is suppressed even in magnetic fields
far below the upper critical field of the superconductor. The suppression of
Andreev conductance depends on and can be minimized by controlling the ramping
of the magnetic field. We identify that the key factor behind this suppression
is the reduction of the superconducting gap due to the piling of vortices on
the superconducting contacts. In devices where superconducting gap at the
superconductor-graphene interface is heavily reduced by proximity effect, the
enlarged vortex cores overlap quickly with increasing magnetic field, resulting
in a rapid decrease of the interfacial gap. However, in weak links with
relatively large effective superconducting gap the AR conductance persists up
to the upper critical field. Our results provide guidance to the study of
quantum material-superconductor systems in presence of magnetic field, where
'survival' of induced superconductivity is critical.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures. Typos corrected, reference adde
Bolometric response in graphene based superconducting tunnel junctions
We fabricate graphene-TiOx-Al tunnel junctions and characterize their radio
frequency response. Below the superconducting critical temperature of Al and
when biased within the superconducting gap, the devices show enhanced dynamic
resistance which increases with decreasing temperature. Application of radio
frequency radiation affects the dynamic resistance through electronic heating.
The relation between the electron temperature rise and the absorbed radiation
power is measured, from which the bolometric parameters, including heat
conductance, noise equivalent power and responsivity, are characterized
Signatures of evanescent transport in ballistic suspended graphene superconductor junctions
In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations behave like ultra-relativistic
massless particles with linear energy dispersion. A particularly intriguing
phenomenon arises with the intrinsic charge transport behavior at the Dirac
point where the charge density approaches zero. In graphene, a 2-D Dirac
fermion system, it was predicted that charge transport near the Dirac point is
carried by evanescent modes, resulting in unconventional pseudo-diffusive
charge transport even in the absence of disorder. In the past decade,
experimental observation of this phenomenon remained challenging due to the
presence of strong disorder in graphene devices which limits the accessibility
of the low carrier density regime close enough to the Dirac point. Here we
report transport measurements on ballistic suspended graphene-Niobium Josephson
weak links that demonstrate a transition from ballistic to pseudo-diffusive
like evanescent transport below a carrier density of .Approaching the Dirac point, the sub-harmonic gap structures due to
multiple Andreev reflections display a strong Fermi energy-dependence and
become increasingly pronounced, while the normalized excess current through the
superconductor-graphene interface decreases sharply. Our observations are in
qualitative agreement with the longstanding theoretical prediction for the
emergence of evanescent transport mediated pseudo-diffusive transport in
graphene.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures. New version after peer review and
publication.Typos correcte
Tuning Strain in Flexible Graphene Nanoelectromechanical Resonators
The structural flexibility of low dimensional nanomaterials offers unique
opportunities for studying the impact of strain on their physical properties
and for developing innovative devices utilizing strain engineering. A key
towards such goals is a device platform which allows the independent tuning and
reliable calibration of the strain. Here we report the fabrication and
characterization of graphene nanoelectromechanical resonators(GNEMRs) on
flexible substrates. Combining substrate bending and electrostatic gating, we
achieve the independent tuning of the strain and sagging in graphene and
explore the nonlinear dynamics over a wide parameter space. Analytical and
numerical studies of a continuum mechanics model, including the competing
higher order nonlinear terms, reveal a comprehensive nonlinear dynamics phase
diagram, which quantitatively explains the complex behaviors of GNEMRs
Long-range ballistic transport of Brown-Zak fermions in graphene superlattices
In quantizing magnetic fields, graphene superlattices exhibit a complex fractal spectrum often referred to as the Hofstadter butterfly. It can be viewed as a collection of Landau levels that arise from quantization of Brown-Zak minibands recurring at rational (p/q) fractions of the magnetic flux quantum per superlattice unit cell. Here we show that, in graphene-on-boron-nitride superlattices, Brown-Zak fermions can exhibit mobilities above 106 cm2 V−1 s−1 and the mean free path exceeding several micrometers. The exceptional quality of our devices allows us to show that Brown-Zak minibands are 4q times degenerate and all the degeneracies (spin, valley and mini-valley) can be lifted by exchange interactions below 1 K. We also found negative bend resistance at 1/q fractions for electrical probes placed as far as several micrometers apart. The latter observation highlights the fact that Brown-Zak fermions are Bloch quasiparticles propagating in high fields along straight trajectories, just like electrons in zero field
One-dimensional proximity superconductivity in the quantum Hall regime
Extensive efforts have been undertaken to combine superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect so that Cooper-pair transport between superconducting electrodes in Josephson junctions is mediated by one-dimensional (1D) edge states. This interest has been motivated by prospects of finding new physics, including topologically-protected quasiparticles, but also extends into metrology and device applications. So far it has proven challenging to achieve detectable supercurrents through quantum Hall conductors. Here we show that domain walls in minimally twisted bilayer graphene support exceptionally robust proximity superconductivity in the quantum Hall regime, allowing Josephson junctions operational in fields close to the upper critical field of superconducting electrodes. The critical current is found to be non-oscillatory, practically unchanging over the entire range of quantizing fields, with its value being limited by the quantum conductance of ballistic strictly-1D electronic channels residing within the domain walls. The described system is unique in its ability to support Andreev bound states in high fields and offers many interesting directions for further exploration