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Electron transport in single wall carbon nanotube weak links in the Fabry-Perot regime

H. I. Jørgensen, K. Grove-Rasmussen, T. Novotný, K. Flensberg, P. E. Lindelof

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0510200

Abstract

We fabricated reproducible high transparency superconducting contacts consisting of superconducting Ti/Al/Ti trilayers to gated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The reported semiconducting SWCNT have normal state differential conductance up to 3e2/h and exhibit clear Fabry-Perot interference patterns in the bias spectroscopy plot. We observed subharmonic gap structure in the differential conductance and a distinct peak in the conductance at zero bias which is interpreted as a manifestation of a supercurrent. The gate dependence of this supercurrent as well as the excess current are examined and compared to a coherent theory of superconducting point contacts with good agreement.

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