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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Dmitry Igorevich Pikulin, Goleta, CA (US);
Geoffrey Charles Gardner, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Raymond Leonard Kallaher, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Georg Wolfgang Winkler, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Sergei Vyatcheslavovich Gronin, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen, Copenhagen, DK;
Michael James Manfra, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Andrey Antipov, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Roman Mykolayovych Lutchyn, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A device comprising: a portion of semiconductor; a portion of superconductor arranged to a enable a topological phase having a topological gap to be induced in a region of the semiconductor by proximity effect; and a portion of a non-magnetic material comprising an element with atomic number Z greater than or equal to 26, arranged to increase the topological gap in the topological region of the semiconductor.