Hard gap tunneling in van-der-Waals tunnel junctions


  Tom Dvir[1]  ,  Freek Masse[2]  ,  Lotan Attias[1]  ,  Maxim Khodas[1]  ,  Marco Aprili[2]  ,  Charis Quay Huei Li[2]  ,  Hadar Steinberg[1]  
[1] The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
[2] Universite Paris Sud

The ability to stack multiple layers of van der Waals materials has given rise in the recent years to a variety of heterostructure. We present a Normal - Insulator - Superconductor tunnel junction fabricated in this method. By using NbSe2 as the target superconductor we observe a hard gap in the density of states, which agrees with the model of a two gap superconductor. Under the application of perpendicular and parallel magnetic fields, we observe the evolution of the density of states both below and above the critical field for penetration of vortices (Hc1). We propose that van der Waals tunnel junctions can be further implemented to the study of other exotic states of matter.