@article{70549ed95876401d8309225c1ac3c454,
title = "The study of contact properties in edge-contacted graphene-aluminum Josephson junctions",
abstract = "Transparent contact interfaces in superconductor-graphene hybrid systems are critical for realizing superconducting quantum applications. Here, we examine the effect of the edge contact fabrication process on the transparency of the superconducting aluminum-graphene junction. We show significant improvement in the transparency of our superconductor-graphene junctions by promoting the chemical component of the edge contact etch process. Our results compare favorably with state-of-the-art graphene Josephson junctions. The findings of our study contribute to advancing the fabrication knowledge of edge-contacted superconductor-graphene junctions.",
author = "Zhujun Huang and Neda Lotfizadeh and Elfeky, {Bassel H.} and Kim Kisslinger and Edoardo Cuniberto and Peng Yu and Mehdi Hatefipour and Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe and Javad Shabani and Davood Shahrjerdi",
note = "Funding Information: D.S. acknowledges support from NSF CMMI (Award No. 2224139). J.S. acknowledges support from ARO (Grant Nos. W911NF-21-2-0169 and W911NF2210048). K.W. and T.T. acknowledge support from the Elemental Strategy Initiative conducted by the MEXT, Japan (Grant No. JPMXP0112101001) and JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Nos. 19H05790, 20H00354, and 21H05233). This work was performed in part at the ASRC NanoFabrication Facility of CUNY in New York. This research used resources of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), which is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility, at Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704. The authors acknowledge Dr. Suji Park of BNL for help with the operation of the QPress tool. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Author(s).",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "12",
doi = "10.1063/5.0135034",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "121",
journal = "Applied Physics Letters",
issn = "0003-6951",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "24",
}