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Ridderbos, Joost (author), Braun, M. (author), de Vries, F.K. (author), Shen, J. (author), Li, Ang (author), Kölling, S. (author), Verheijen, Marcel A. (author), Brinkman, Alexander (author), van der Wiel, Wilfred G. (author), Bakkers, E.P.A.M. (author), Zwanenburg, Floris A. (author)We show a hard superconducting gap in a Ge-Si nanowire Josephson transistor up to in-plane magnetic fields of 250 mT, an important step toward creating and detecting Majorana zero modes in this system. A hard gap requires a highly homogeneous tunneling heterointerface between the superconducting contacts and the semiconducting nanowire. This...journal article 2020
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de Vries, F.K. (author), Shen, J. (author), Skolasinski, R.J. (author), Nowak, M.P. (author), Varjas, D. (author), Wang, L. (author), Wimmer, M.T. (author), Zwanenburg, F.A. (author), Li, A. (author), Kölling, S. (author), Verheijen, M.P.A.M. (author), Bakkers, E.P.A.M. (author), Kouwenhoven, Leo P. (author)Low dimensional semiconducting structures with strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and induced superconductivity attracted great interest in the search for topological superconductors. Both the strong SOI and hard superconducting gap are directly related to the topological protection of the predicted Majorana bound states. Here we explore the...journal article 2018
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Bakkers, E.P.A.M. (author), Hauge, H. I.T. (author), Li, A. (author), Assali, S. (author), Dijkstra, A. (author), Tucker, R. (author), Ren, Y. (author), Conesa Boj, S. (author), Verheijen, M. A. (author)Light emission from Si, would allow integration of electronic and optical functionality in the main electronics platform technology, but this has been impossible due to the indirect band gap of Si. In this talk I will discuss 2 different approaches, using unique properties of nanowires, to realize light emission from Si-based compounds.conference paper 2016