A Colored Close Up of the Proximity Induced Unconventional Superconductor (IMAGE)

Chalmers University of Technology

A Colored Close Up of the Proximity Induced Unconventional Superconductor

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The aluminum plates were attached to the topological insulator using platinum. The picture (scale bar: 200?nm) shows one of the devices used in the experiment. Because of the stress, induced by various cool downs, a clear buckling feature appears in the nanogap of the device. This modification is causing the characteristics of the superconducting pairs of electron to vary in different directions, a signature of unconventional superconductivity.

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Thilo Bauch and Floriana Lombardi/Chalmers University of Technology

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