The focused ion beam (FIB) is a powerful tool for fabrication, modification, and
characterization of materials down to the nanoscale. Starting with the gallium FIB, which was …

Since its discovery in 1911, superconductivity has represented an equally inciting and
fascinating field of study in several areas of physics and materials science, ranging from its …

Superconducting planar nanostructures are widely used in applications, eg, for highly
sensitive magnetometers and in basic research, eg, to study finite size effects or vortex …

A comprehensive study of the vortex phases and vortex dynamics is presented for a recently
discovered high-temperature superconductor ThH 10 with TC= 153 K at 170 GPa. The …

Tungsten thin films are successfully prepared by reactive sputtering at room temperature
using different Ar/N2 gas mixtures. The role of disorder and chemical composition in the …

The importance of atomic structure to understand the superconducting β-Tungsten (W) thin
films especially their critical transition temperature (T c) and upper critical magnetic field Hc2 …

Key questions for any superconductor include: what is its maximum dissipation‐free
electrical current (its 'critical current') and can this be used to extract fundamental …

Focused ion beam (FIB) technology makes use of a highly-focused beam of charged ions to
perform precise nanopatterning tasks by steering it over a sample, tracing patterns defined …

Superconducting nanowires can be fabricated by decomposition of an organometallic gas
using a focused beam of Ga ions. However, physical damage and unintentional doping …

Proximity-induced superconducting energy gap in the surface states of topological insulators
has been predicted to host the much wanted Majorana fermions for fault-tolerant quantum …