Buried germanium quantum well proximitised by magnetic field-resilient superconducting platinum iridium germanosilicide

Abstract

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor systems provide a versatile platform for quantum technologies, ranging from superconducting-spin interfaces to topological quantum devices. Progress toward scalable implementations requires superconductors that exhibit high critical fields ($>1$T) at accessible temperatures integrated with low-disorder semiconductor heterostructures. Here we demonstrate a superconducting platinum iridium germanosilicide (PtIrSiGe), with critical out-of-plane magnetic field up to $B_{\perp }=1.9$T and critical temperature of $T_c\sim 1.85$K, integrated with planar germanium with mobility $\mu =1.3\times 10^6$cm${}^2$/Vs via top-down lithography fabrication. We show that the integrity of the germanium quantum well and mobility and density of the 2D hole gas are preserved despite annealing at $500°$C, a temperature comparable to that used for strained germanium epitaxy. We further demonstrate proximitisation of a buried germanium quantum well in a gate-defined Josephson junction/SQUID on a Ge/SiGe heterostructure.

7 pages, 3 figures