Niobium in the clean limit: An intrinsic type-I superconductor

R Prozorov, M Zarea, JA Sauls - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Niobium is one of the most researched superconductors, both theoretically and
experimentally. It is enormously significant in all branches of superconducting applications …

Ultrathin Magnesium‐Based Coating as an Efficient Oxygen Barrier for Superconducting Circuit Materials

C Zhou, J Mun, J Yao, A Anbalagan… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Scaling up superconducting quantum circuits based on transmon qubits necessitates
substantial enhancements in qubit coherence time. Over recent years, tantalum (Ta) has …

[HTML][HTML] α-Ta films on c-plane sapphire with enhanced microstructure

LN Majer, S Smink, W Braun, B Fenk, V Harbola… - APL Materials, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Superconducting films of α-Ta are promising candidates for the fabrication of advanced
superconducting qubits. However, α-Ta films suffer from many growth-induced structural …

Superconductivity in a New High-Entropy Alloy (NbTi)(MoHfV)

W Nowak, B Rusin, M Babij, R Topolnicki… - … Materials Transactions A, 2024 - Springer
The structural and superconducting properties of a new niobium-and titanium-rich high-
entropy alloy (NbTi) 0.67 (MoHfV) 0.33 were determined. The alloy was synthesized by arc …

Superconductivity in Al-Nb-Ti-V-Zr multicomponent alloy

Y Harayama, J Kitagawa - Journal of Superconductivity and Novel …, 2021 - Springer
The superconducting high-entropy alloys (HEAs) recently attract considerable attention due
to their exciting properties, such as the robustness of superconductivity against atomic …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of the Presence of Structural Defects on the Superconducting Properties of (NbTa)0.67(MoHfW)0.33 and Nb-47wt%Ti

W Nowak, M Babij, A Hanc-Kuczkowska, P Sobota… - Metals, 2023 - mdpi.com
A comparison of the results of studies on the influence of structural defects on the critical
parameters of superconductivity has been made for the high-entropy alloy (NbTa) 0.67 …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of severe plastic deformation on superconducting properties of Re and In

R Idczak, W Nowak, M Babij, VH Tran - Physica C: Superconductivity and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The positron lifetime annihilation spectroscopy, magnetic and electrical resistivity data
obtained for the pure polycrystalline rhenium and indium samples were compared with …

Tantalum thin films sputtered on silicon and on different seed layers: material characterization and coplanar waveguide resonator performance

M Singer, B Schoof, H Gupta, D Zahn… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Superconducting qubits are a promising platform for large-scale quantum computing.
Besides the Josephson junction, most parts of a superconducting qubit are made of a …

Enhanced Superconducting Critical Parameters in a New High-Entropy Alloy Nb0.34Ti0.33Zr0.14Ta0.11Hf0.08

R Idczak, W Nowak, B Rusin, R Topolnicki, T Ossowski… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The structural and physical properties of the new titanium-and niobium-rich type-A high-
entropy alloy (HEA) superconductor Nb 0.34 Ti 0.33 Zr 0.14 Ta 0.11 Hf 0.08 (in at.%) were …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of magnetic field variation on thermally annealed tantalum-filled vertical superconducting interconnects for scalable quantum computing systems

H Mishra, S Bonam, U Pandey, SG Singh - APL Quantum, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Efforts to scale down advanced quantum processors with more numbers of qubits offer
challenges since the integration of qubits is a significant obstacle in the path …