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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2026

Non-Destructive Laser Nanopatterning of Superconducting Heterostructures in Topological Sn Thin Films.

Le Duc Anh, Takahiro Saeki, Keita Ishihara, Daiki Nishigaki, Hideki Maki, Masaaki Tanaka

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Le Duc AnhDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5708-8352
Takahiro SaekiDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Keita IshiharaDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Daiki NishigakiDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Hideki MakiDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Masaaki TanakaDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3599-663X

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Advanced Research Infrastructure for Materials and Nanotechnology in JapanERATO JPMJER2202ERATO NEXUS of JSTGrants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 19K21961Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 20H05650Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 22K18293Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 23K17324Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 24H00018Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 25H00840Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology JPMXP24UT0121Spintronics Research Network of Japan
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Abstract

Heterostructures composed of superconductors and topological materials have emerged as compelling platforms for realizing topological superconductivity and fault-tolerant quantum computation. A critical bottleneck, however, lies in achieving atomically clean and structurally coherent interfaces between dissimilar materials. Here, we report the fabrication of high-quality planar heterostructures composed of the topological Dirac semimetal (TDS) α-Sn and the superconducting β-Sn phase, achieved by focused laser irradiation on α-Sn thin films. The irradiated regions undergo a phase transition from α-Sn to β-Sn, exhibiting atomically smooth surfaces with a root mean square (RMS) roughness of just 0.75 nm. The laser-induced β-Sn demonstrates superconductivity with a critical temperature of 3.7 K and a Ginzburg-Landau coherence length (ξ

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laser lithographymolecular beam epitaxyphase transitionsuperconducting diode effecttopological superconductor

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PMID41580929
PMCPMC12957862

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