Multiple Andreev reflections in diffusive SNS structures
✍ Scribed by Rafael Taboryski; Jonatan Kutchinsky; Jørn Bindslev Hansen; Morten Wildt; Claus B. Sørensen; Poul Erik Lindelof
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0749-6036
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✦ Synopsis
We report new measurements on subgap energy structures originating from multiple Andreev reflections in mesoscopic SNS junctions. The junctions were fabricated in a planar geometry with high-transparency superconducting contacts of Al deposited on highly diffusive and surface δ-doped n ++ -GaAs. For samples with a normal GaAs region of active length 0.3 µm, the Josephson effect with a maximal supercurrent I c = 3 µA at T = 237 mK was observed. The subgap structure was observed as a series of local minima in the differential resistance at dc bias voltages V = ±2 /(ne) with n = 1, 2, 4, i.e. only the even subgap positions. While at V = ±2 /e(n = 1) only one dip is observed, the n = 2 and the n = 4 subgap structures each consists of two separate dips in the differential resistance. The mutual spacing of these two dips is independent of temperature, and the mutual spacing of the n = 4 dips is half the spacing of the n = 2 dips. The voltage bias positions of the subgap differential resistance minima coincide with the maxima in the oscillation amplitude when a magnetic field is applied in an interferometer configuration, where one of the superconducting electrodes has been replaced by a flux-sensitive open loop.
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