High Critical-Current Superconductor-InAs Nanowire-Superconductor Junctions

Abstract

We report on the fabrication of InAs nanowires coupled to superconducting leads with high critical current and widely tunable conductance. We implemented a double lift-off nanofabrication method to get very short nanowire devices with Ohmic contacts. We observe very high critical currents of up to 800 nA in a wire with a diameter of 80 nm. The current-voltage characteristics of longer and suspended nanowires display either Coulomb blockade or supercurrent depending on a local gate voltage, combining different regimes of transport in a single device.