Selective-area-grown PbTe-Pb planar Josephson junctions for quantum devices

R Li, W Song, W Miao, Z Yu, Z Wang, S Yang… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Planar Josephson junctions are predicted to host Majorana zero modes. The material
platforms in previous studies are two-dimensional electron gases (InAs, InSb, InAsSb, and …

Mid-wave infrared photoluminescence from low-temperature-grown PbSe epitaxial films on GaAs after rapid thermal annealing

JE Meyer, L Nordin, T Nguyen, K Mukherjee - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the beneficial effects of rapid thermal annealing on structure and
photoluminescence of PbSe thin films on GaAs (001) grown below 150 C, with a goal of low …

[HTML][HTML] Control of Ge island coalescence for the formation of nanowires on silicon

SP Ramanandan, JR Sapera, A Morelle… - Nanoscale …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Germanium nanowires could be the building blocks of hole-spin qubit quantum computers.
Selective area epitaxy enables the direct integration of Ge nanowires on a silicon chip while …

In‐Plane Nanowire Growth of Topological Crystalline Insulator Pb1 − xSnxTe

SG Schellingerhout, R Bergamaschini… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Predicted topological crystalline insulators such as Pb1− xSnxTe are an interesting
candidate for applications in quantum technology, as they can host spin‐polarized surface …

Versatile strain relief pathways in epitaxial films of PbSe on III-V substrates

BB Haidet, J Meyer, P Reddy, ET Hughes… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
PbSe and related IV-VI rocksalt-structure semiconductors have important electronic
properties that are controlled by epitaxial strain and interfaces and can be harnessed in the …

Catalyst-free MBE growth of PbSnTe nanowires with tunable aspect ratio

MGC Mientjes, X Guan, PJH Lueb… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are interesting for their topological surface states,
which hold great promise for scattering-free transport channels and fault-tolerant quantum …

[PDF][PDF] In-Plane Nanowire Growth of Topological Crystalline Insulator Pb

SG Schellingerhout, R Bergamaschini, MA Verheijen… - 2023 - boa.unimib.it
Tin telluride (SnTe) is predicted to be a Topological crystalline insulator (TCI), a state of
matter with spin-polarized surface states arising from crystal symmetries.[1–3] The …