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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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Flór, Ian Matthias (author)The edge states in finite quantum Hall graphene have previously been shown to be valley polarised for zigzag and armchair edges. Assuming that the valley isospin is also conserved at a smooth normal-superconducting (NS) interface, theoretical research has previously predicted that plateaus in the longitudinal conductance are expected to occur in...bachelor thesis 2019
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Roerink, Steven (author)Multi-junction solar cells with Si alloys have true potential for high conversion efficiency, because of the spectrum splitting capability. For optimal spectral utilization, a multi-junction silicon based device needs a silicon alloy with a bandgap between that of nc-Si (1.1 eV) and a-Si (1.8 eV). a-SiGe:H has a tunable bandgap between 1.4-1.6...master thesis 2019
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Stefani, D. (author)This dissertation concerns transport measurements in single-molecule junctions using the mechanically controlled break junction (MCBJ) technique. It describes various aspects that play a role in charge transport through single molecules, in order to develop the necessary knowledge to ultimately develop electronic devices based on intrinsic...doctoral thesis 2019
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Proutski, A. (author)Materials possessing superconducting properties are highly sought after due to their potential technological applications. Much of the work has focused on utilising a thin insulating barrier separating a pair of superconducting electrodes, a Josephson junction, as a workhorse in the field of superconducting based quantumcomputation. Yet such...doctoral thesis 2019
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van der Vlag, Michiel (author)Current brain simulators do no scale linearly to realistic problem sizes (e.g. >100,000 neurons), which makes them impractical for researchers. The goal of the thesis is to explore the use of true multi-GPU acceleration on computationally challenging brain models and to assess the scalability of such models given sufficient access to multi...master thesis 2019
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van de Veen, Tim (author)A single photon interacting with a single atom is the most fundamental form of light interacting with matter and has been extensively studied in the field of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (cavity QED). Here, a non-linearity like an atom is coupled to a single mode of the electromagnetic field in a cavity. Another field which explores the...master thesis 2019
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Zotti, Linda A. (author), Bednarz, Beatrice (author), Hurtado-Gallego, Juan (author), Cabosart, D.C.N. (author), Rubio-Bollinger, Gabino (author), Agrait, Nicolas (author), van der Zant, H.S.J. (author)We studied the electron-transport properties of ten different amino acids and one dimer (di-methionine) using the mechanically controlled break-junction (MCBJ) technique. For methionine and cysteine, additional measurements were performed with the scanning tunneling microscope break-junction (STM-BJ) technique. By means of a statistical...journal article 2019
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Brandl, Thomas (author), El Abbassi, M. (author), Stefani, D. (author), Frisenda, R. (author), Harzmann, Gero D. (author), van der Zant, H.S.J. (author), Mayor, Marcel (author)A new concept to improve the reliability of functional single molecule junctions is presented using the E-field triggered switching of Fe<sup>II</sup>bis-terpyridine complexes in a mechanically controlled break junction experiment as model system. The complexes comprise a push-pull ligand sensing the applied E-field and the resulting...journal article 2019
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Yanai, S. (author)In this thesis, the microwave detection of mechanically compliant objects is investigated. This starts with a system of a suspended metal drum capacitively coupled to a high impedance microstrip resonator. The mechanical non-linear dissipation of the drums is studied. Next, a suspended nanowire coupled to a CPW resonator is studied. With an...doctoral thesis 2018
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Xu, Haiyuan (author)In this thesis, contact resistivity for carrier-selective contacts (CSCs) is evaluated by using finite element simulations TCAD Sentaurus. First, the process of transmission line measurement (TLM) is modelled and validated based on current-voltage (I-V) data comparison between reference experiment and simulation results on polycrystalline...master thesis 2018
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de Jong, Matthijs (author)In this thesis, a we have designed and fabricated a Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) using a new double-angle evaporation method without a Dolan bridge. We have found and resolved several issues in the fabrication procedure, but it requires further tuning before being fully functional. We have also simulated the behaviour of a general...master thesis 2018
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Teitsma, Jacco (author)In this thesis, the methods of Matrix Product States are examined. We give background in the origin of the methods and explain in detail how the method can be applied to a series of Josephson junctions. Numerical results are given for the ground state energy analysis of these series.bachelor thesis 2018
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van Breugel, Boris (author)This thesis focuses on electronic transport modelling in molecular junctions. The most common technique for modelling electron transport is the combination of Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Non-Equilibrium Green's Function's (NEGF). Conventional DFT+NEGF methods are, however, invalid for correctly modelling junctions under a bias voltage. ...bachelor thesis 2018
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Olavarria Contreras, I.J. (author)This thesis is about measurements of the electrical properties of different families of molecules. The research was focused on fundamental questions of charge transport in organic molecules. With this aim, experiments were performed to shed light on the underlying transport mechanisms. For example, an important ingredient of the work concerned...doctoral thesis 2018
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Sun, B. (author), Fan, J. (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)This work studies the effect of randomness of LED's lumen depreciation on reliability of the entire LED lamp. An integrated LED light bulb is selected as carrier of the proposed method. A PoF based lumen depreciation model and electronic-thermal simulations are introduced for reliability prediction. The normal distribution is used to describe...conference paper 2018
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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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Stefani, D. (author), Weiland, Kevin J. (author), Skripnik, Maxim (author), Hsu, C. (author), Perrin, M.L. (author), Mayor, Marcel (author), Pauly, Fabian (author), van der Zant, H.S.J. (author)An appealing feature of molecular electronics is the possibility of inducing changes in the orbital structure through external stimuli. This can provide functionality on the single-molecule level that can be employed for sensing or switching purposes if the associated conductance changes are sizable upon application of the stimuli. Here, we...journal article 2018
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Stefani, D. (author), Perrin, M.L. (author), Gutiérrez Cerón, C.A. (author), Aragonès, Albert C. (author), Labra Muñoz, J. (author), Carrasco, Rodrigo D.C. (author), Matsushita, Yoshitaka (author), Futera, Zdenek (author), Labuta, Jan (author), Ngo, Thien H. (author), Ariga, Katsuhiko (author), Díez-Pérez, Ismael (author), van der Zant, H.S.J. (author), Dulić, Diana (author), Hill, Jonathan P. (author)A conformationally flexible calix[4]pyrrole possessing a conjugated electronic structure (an N-substituted oxoporphyrinogen (OxP) related to porphyrin) was used to investigate the influence of mechanical stretching on the single-molecule conductance of these molecules using the mechanically-controlled break junction (MCBJ) technique. The...journal article 2018
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Hamoen, Victor (author)The ever increasing installed capacity of renewable, sustainable energy is essential in order to keep the earth<br/>habitable. However, the intermittent nature of solar and wind energy do not strictly follow human energy<br/>demands. Therefore an energy of sufficient magnitude buffer is essential to provide a constant supply of<br/>energy that...master thesis 2017