Scientific Achievement
A superconducting diode is dissipation-less and desirable for electronic circuits with ultralow power consumption. Such a device was achieved in a conventional super-conducting film patterned with a conformal array of nanoscale holes.
Significance and Impact
The switchable and reversible rectification signals can be three orders of magnitude larger than those from a flux-quantum diode.
Research Details
- The superconducting diode effect is achieved in conventional MoGe superconducting films (50 nm thick) patterned with a conformal array of nanoscale holes (110 and 220 nm diameter) to break the spatial inversion symmetry.
- The primary CNM capabilities used included optical and electron beam lithography and reactive ion etching.
Work was performed in part at CNM.
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