Dynamics of superconducting nanowires shunted with an external resistor

MW Brenner, D Roy, N Shah, A Bezryadin - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2012 - APS
We present a study of superconducting nanowires shunted with an external resistor, geared
towards understanding and controlling coherence and dissipation in nanowires. The …

Directed electrochemical nanowire assembly: Precise nanostructure assembly via dendritic solidification

BN Flanders - Modern Physics Letters B, 2012 - World Scientific
The electrode-nanowire-target architecture, where the target is a second electrode or, say, a
biological cell, is critical to fundamental experiments and high performance devices in low …

Quantum phase slips in superconducting wires with weak inhomogeneities

M Vanević, YV Nazarov - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
Quantum phase slips are traditionally considered in diffusive superconducting wires which
are assumed homogeneous. We present a definite estimate for the amplitude of phase slips …

Superconductivity in single crystalline Pb nanowires contacted by normal metal electrodes

J Wang, Y Sun, M Tian, B Liu, M Singh… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
The transport properties of superconducting single crystal Pb nanowires that are 55 and 70
nm in diameter were studied by the standard four-electrode method. With normal metal …

The electrical conductivity of bundles of superconducting nanowires produced by laser ablation of metals in superfluid helium

EB Gordon, AV Karabulin, VI Matyushenko… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The temperature dependencies of the electrical resistance are reported for bundles of
permalloy, indium, tin, and lead nanowires having a similar diameter of about 8 nm which …

Quantum phase slips in superconducting Nb nanowire networks deposited on self-assembled Si templates

C Cirillo, M Trezza, F Chiarella, A Vecchione… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Robust porous silicon substrates were employed for generating interconnected networks of
superconducting ultrathin Nb nanowires. Scanning electron microscopy analysis was …

Diverse nanowires activated self-scrolling of graphene nanoribbons

D Xia, Q Xue, K Yan, C Lv - Applied surface science, 2012 - Elsevier
Diverse nanowires (NWs) activating the self-scrolling of planar graphene (GN) nanoribbons
have been studied by using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Once the NWs' radiuses …

Dimensional crossover transition in a system of weakly coupled superconducting nanowires

MY Sun, ZL Hou, T Zhang, Z Wang, W Shi… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Owing to recent observations of superconductivity in quasi-onedimensional (1D) systems,
Josephson arrays composed of aligned and weakly coupled 1D superconducting nanowires …

Felling of individual freestanding nanoobjects using focused-ion-beam milling for investigations of structural and transport properties

W Li, JC Fenton, A Cui, H Wang, Y Wang, C Gu… - …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We report that, to enable studies of their compositional, structural and electrical properties,
freestanding individual nanoobjects can be selectively felled in a controllable way by the …

The Cooper problem in nanoscale: enhancement of the coupling due to confinement

MD Croitoru, A Vagov, AA Shanenko… - … Science and Technology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In 1956 Cooper demonstrated (1956 Phys. Rev. 104 1189) that, no matter how
weak the attraction is, two electrons in three-dimensional (3D) space just above the Fermi …