https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023305007
Low temperature characterization of high efficiency spin-filter Josephson junctions
1 Dipartimento di Fisica E. Pancini, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Monte S. Angelo, via Cinthia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
2 CNR-SPIN, c/o Complesso di Monte S. Angelo, via Cinthia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
3 SeeQC-eu, via dei Due Macelli 66, I-00187 Roma, Italy
4 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Main Gate Rd, IIT Area, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India
5 Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United Kingdom
6 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Claudio, I-80125 Napoli, Italy
* Corresponding author: caruso@fisica.unina.it
Published online: 16 April 2020
The interplay between superconducting and ferromagnetic order pa¬rameters in S/F interfaces gives rise to a wide range of peculiar properties with applications in high-efficiency computation and in the emerging field of super¬conducting spintronics. In NbN/GdN/NbN Josephson junctions, GdN barriers give unique properties due to the double insulting and ferromagnetic nature of the material, as demonstrated in previous works. Here we focus on tunneling spectroscopy of these junctions down to 0.3 K when changing the barrier thick¬ness, which contributes to complete a consistent picture on the physics of these junctions and supports the previous indications of equal-spin Cooper pairs con¬tributing to the total supercurrent of the devices.
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