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Oxidation-resilient structural modifications in Nickel-functionalized 3D-graphene for hydrogen storage applications
Filippo Fincato, Ylea Vlamidis, Markus Leitgeb +6
Porous materials represent a versatile solution for several applications. Indeed, the recent development of a new material, named 3D-Graphene, which combines the exceptional charac…
Emission dynamics in zincblende InAsxP1-x quantum dots in InP nanowires: influence of quantum dot size, composition and nanowire geometry
Tomasz Gzyl, Giada Bucci, Krzysztof Gawarecki +10
Hereby, we present an experimental and theoretical investigation of emission dynamics in zincblende InAsxP1-x quantum dots (QDs) embedded in InP nanowires (NWs) grown via vapour-li…
Magnetically Induced Switching-Current Jumps in InAs/Al Josephson Junctions
Ofelia Durante, Roberta Citro, Elia Strambini +8
We report Barkhausen-like switching at millitesla fields in an -doped InAs/Al nanowire Josephson junction, which serves as an interferometric probe of intrinsic magnetic reconfi…
Growth and Transport Properties of InAsSb Nanoflags
Sebastian Serra, Gaurav Shukla, Giada Bucci +5
The present work reports, for the first time, the growth of high-quality free-standing InAsSb nanoflags and their electronic properties. Different growth conditions have been explo…
Phonon interference effects in GaAs-GaP superlattice nanowires
Chaitanya Arya, Johannes Trautvetter, Jose M. Sojo-Gordillo +8
Fine-tuning the functional properties of nanomaterials is crucial for technological applications. Superlattices, characterized by periodic repetitions of two or more materials in d…
Supercurrent modulation in InSb nanoflag-based Josephson junctions by scanning gate microscopy
Antonio Lombardi, Gaurav Shukla, Giada Bucci +10
InSb nanoflags represent an interesting platform for quantum transport and have recently been exploited in the study of hybrid planar Josephson junctions. Due to the uncovered semi…
Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices based on InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions
Andrea Chieppa, Gaurav Shukla, Simone Traverso +10
Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) based on InSb nanoflags have recently emerged as an intriguing platform in superconducting electronics. This letter presents the fabrication and in…
InAs Nanowire-Based Twin Electrical Sensors enabling Simultaneous Gas Detection Measurements: Nanodevice Engineering, Testing and Signal Fluctuation Analysis
Camilla Baratto, Egit Musaev, Valeria Demontis +6
Epitaxially grown InAs NWs are relevant for electrical sensing applications due to Fermi level pinning at NW surface, thus very sensitive to surrounding environment. While a single…
Side-gate modulation of supercurrent in InSb nanoflag-based Josephson junctions
Bianca Turini, Sedighe Salimian, Matteo Carrega +4
InSb nanoflags, due to their intrinsic spin-orbit interactions, are an interesting platform in the study of planar Josephson junctions. Ballistic transport, combined with high tran…
Engineering nanowire quantum dots with iontronics
Domenic Prete, Valeria Demontis, Valentina Zannier +3
Achieving stable, high-quality quantum dots has proven challenging within device architectures rooted in conventional solid-state device fabrication paradigms. In fact, these are g…
Metal Nanoparticle-Functionalized Three-Dimensional Graphene: a versatile platform towards sensors and energy-related applications
Emanuele Pompei, Ylea Vlamidis, Letizia Ferbel +10
We demonstrate the first successful functionalization of epitaxial three-dimensional graphene with metal nanoparticles. The functionalization is obtained by immersing the 3D graphe…
GaAs/GaP Superlattice Nanowires for Tailoring Phononic Properties at the Nanoscale: Implications for Thermal Engineering
Aswathi K. Sivan, Begoña Abad, Tommaso Albrigi +8
The possibility to tune the functional properties of nanomaterials is key to their technological applications. Superlattices, i.e., periodic repetitions of two or more materials in…
Half-integer Shapiro steps in highly transmissive InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions
Andrea Iorio, Alessandro Crippa, Bianca Turini +8
We investigate a ballistic InSb nanoflag-based Josephson junction with Nb superconducting contacts. The high transparency of the superconductor-semiconductor interfaces enables the…
Josephson Diode Effect in High Mobility InSb Nanoflags
Bianca Turini, Sedighe Salimian, Matteo Carrega +6
We report evidence of non-reciprocal dissipation-less transport in single ballistic InSb nanoflag Josephson junctions, owing to a strong spin-orbit coupling. Applying an in-plane m…
Giant reduction of thermal conductivity in twinning superlattice InAsSb nanowires
Lorenzo Peri, Domenic Prete, Valeria Demontis +5
Semiconductor nanostructures hold great promise for high-efficiency waste heat recovery exploiting thermoelectric energy conversion, a technological breakthrough that could signifi…
Spin Cross-Correlation Experiments in an Electron Entangler
Arunav Bordoloi, Valentina Zannier, Lucia Sorba +2
Correlations are fundamental in describing many body systems - not only in natural sciences. However, in experiments, correlations are notoriously difficult to assess on the micros…
High Mobility Free-Standing InSb Nanoflags Grown On InP Nanowire Stems For Quantum Devices
Isha Verma, Sedighe Salimian, Valentina Zannier +5
High quality heteroepitaxial two-dimensional (2D) InSb layers are very difficult to realize owing to the large lattice mismatch with other widespread semiconductor substrates. A wa…
Gate-controlled Supercurrent in Ballistic InSb Nanoflag Josephson Junctions
Sedighe Salimian, Matteo Carrega, Isha Verma +5
High-quality III-V narrow band gap semiconductor materials with strong spin-orbit coupling and large Lande g-factor provide a promising platform for next-generation applications in…
Quantum-dot single-electron transistor as thermoelectric quantum detectors at terahertz frequencies
Mahdi Asgari, Dominique Coquillat, Guido Menichetti +6
Low dimensional nano-systems are promising candidates for manipulating, controlling and capturing photons with large sensitivities and low-noise. If quantum engineered to tailor th…
Spectroscopy of the local density-of-states in nanowires using integrated quantum dots
Frederick S. Thomas, Malin Nilsson, Carlo Ciaccia +6
In quantum dot (QD) electron transport experiments additional features can appear in the differential conductance that do not originate from discrete states in the QD, but…
Growth and Strain Relaxation Mechanisms of InAs/InP/GaAsSb Core-Dual-Shell Nanowires
Omer Arif, Valentina Zannier, Ang Li +4
The combination of core/shell geometry and band gap engineering in nanowire heterostructures can be employed to realize systems with novel transport and optical properties. Here, w…
Unveiling the detection dynamics of semiconductor nanowire photodetectors by terahertz near-field nanoscopy
Eva A. A. Pogna, Mahdi Asgari, Valentina Zannier +3
Semiconductor nanowire field-effect transistors represent a promising platform for the development of room-temperature (RT) terahertz (THz) frequency light detectors due to the str…
Gate-controlled Suspended Titanium Nanobridge Supercurrent Transistor
M. Rocci, G. De Simoni, C. Puglia +5
In a family of experiments carried on all-metallic supercurrent nano-transistors a surprising gating effect has been recently shown. These include the full suppression of the criti…
Probing proximity induced superconductivity in InAs nanowire using built-in barriers
Tosson Elalaily, Olivér Kürtössy, Valentina Zannier +7
Bound states in superconductor-nanowire hybrid devices play a central role, carrying informationon the ground states properties (Shiba or Andreev states) or on the topological prop…