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year 2021
author(s) M Mergenthaler, F J Schupp, A Nersisyan, N Ares, A Baumgartner, C Schönenberger, G A D Briggs, P J Leek, E A Laird
title Radio-frequency characterization of a supercurrent transistor made of a carbon nanotube
document type Paper
source Mater. Quantum. Technol. 1, 035003 (2021)
doi 10.1088/2633-4356/ac1d57
arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16256
EMP/Horizon2020 This publication does not include a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement.
abstract

A supercurrent transistor is a superconductor–semiconductor hybrid device in which the Josephson supercurrent is switched on and off using a gate voltage. While such devices have been studied using DC transport, radio-frequency measurements allow for more sensitive and faster experiments. Here a supercurrent transistor made from a carbon nanotube is measured simultaneously via DC conductance and radio-frequency reflectometry. The radio-frequency measurement resolves all the main features of the conductance data across a wide range of bias and gate voltage, and many of these features are seen more clearly. These results are promising for measuring other kinds of hybrid superconducting devices, in particular for detecting the reactive component of the impedance, which a DC measurement can never detect.