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Hard Superconducting Gap and Diffusion-Induced Superconductors in Ge–Si Nanowires

Joost Ridderbos, Matthias Brauns, Folkert K. de Vries, Jie Shen, Ang Li, Sebastian Kölling, Marcel A. Verheijen, Alexander Brinkman, Wilfred G. van der Wiel, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers,

Nano Letters · 2019 · 30 citations · 55 references

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= 3.4 T) is found. The small size of these diffusion-induced superconductors inside nanowires may be of special interest for applications requiring high magnetic fields in arbitrary direction.

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