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SQEL at the Nanowire Week 2019

Elia Strambini during his talk at Nanowire Week 2019 Elia Strambini during his talk at Nanowire Week 2019

The Nanowire Week is one of the biggest conferences on nanowires merging two well-established and highly successful annual workshops: NANOWIRES and the Nanowire Growth Workshop. The 2019 edition has been held in Pisa from September 23 to 27 organized by NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and CNR Istituto Nanoscienze.

Our researcher Elia Strambini presented some unpublished results of our group in a a talk titled “Magnetically-driven anomalous phase shift in InAs nanowire Josephson Junctions” about the revealing of an anomalous phase shift in a Al/InAs(NW)/Al Josephson junction.

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“Field-Effect Controllable Metallic Josephson Interferometer” published on Nano Letters

“Field-Effect Controllable Metallic Josephson Interferometer” published on Nano Letters “Field-Effect Controllable Metallic Josephson Interferometer” published on Nano Letters

A new research carried out at the SQEL report the realization of a titanium-based monolithic superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) which can be tuned by applying a gate bias to its two Josephson junctions.

The research, published on Nano Letters by F. Paolucci and co-authors, points out the strong implications of the apparent coupling of a static electric field to the macroscopic phase of the superconducting condensate.

Beyond that, this class of quantum interferometers could represent a breakthrough for several applications such as digital electronics, quantum computing, sensitive magnetometry, and single-photon detection.

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The project T-CONVERSE “Temperature-to-phase CONVErsion THz Radiation SEnsors” has been funded!

The ATTRACT project T-CONVERSE "Temperature-to-phase CONVErsion THz Radiation SEnsors" has been funded! ATTRACT is a pioneering initiative bringing together Europe’s research & industrial communities to lead the next generation of detection & imaging technologies.

The project T-CONVERSE “Temperature-to-phase CONVErsion THz Radiation SEnsors”, a collaboration between INFN Sezione di Pisa (F. Paolucci), CNR-Nano (F. Giazotto) and SeeQC-Eu (O. Mukhanov), is one of the projects recommended for funding in the call ATTRACT for the development of breakthrough sensing and imaging technology.

More information on: https://attract-eu.com/selected-projects/temperature-to-phase-conversion-thz-radiation-sensors-t-converse/