Hybrid superconducting nanostructures: very low temperature local probing and noise

Claude Chapelier (1, 2) , F. Lefloch (2, 1) , Hervé Courtois (3) , Klaus Hasselbach (4)

1 INAC - Institut Nanosciences et Cryogénie
2 LaTEQS - Laboratoire de Transport Electronique Quantique et Supraconductivité
3 NEEL - QuNES - Nano-Electronique Quantique et Spectroscopie
4 NEEL - MagSup - Magnétisme et Supraconductivité

We review the topic of hybrid superconducting nanostructures by introducing the basic physical concepts and describing recent key experimental results. We discuss the superconductivity nucleation in mesoscopic structures, the vortex lattice imaging in doped diamond films, the superconducting proximity effect, multiple Andreev reflection in Josephson junctions and the electronic micro-cooling in hybrid tunnel junctions. An emphasis is put on very low temperature local probes and noise measurement techniques developed in Grenoble.

Domaines: Supraconductivité [cond-mat.supr-con]

Claude Chapelier, F. Lefloch, Hervé Courtois, Klaus Hasselbach. Hybrid superconducting nanostructures: very low temperature local probing and noise. International Journal of Nanotechnology, 2010, 7 (4-8), pp.456-473. ⟨10.1504/IJNT.2010.031730⟩. ⟨hal-00954424⟩