A new publication written by the group on a superconducting diode was just published in Nature.

Matteo Castellani, Owen Medeiros, Alessandro Buzzi, Reed A. Foster, Marco Colangelo and Karl K. Berggren.
M. Castellani, O. Medeiros, A. Buzzi, R. A. Foster, M. Colangelo, and K. K. Berggren, “: A superconducting full-wave bridge rectifier,” Nat Electron, pp. 1–9, May 2025.

Abstract

Superconducting thin-film electronics can offer low power consumption, fast operating speeds and interfacing capabilities with cryogenic systems such as single-photon detector arrays and quantum computing devices. However, the lack of a reliable superconducting two-terminal asymmetric device, analogous to a semiconducting diode, limits the development of power-handling circuits, which are fundamental for scaling up such technology. Here we report a robust superconducting diode with tunable polarity using the asymmetric vortex surface barrier in niobium nitride micro-bridges. The diode offers a 43% peak rectification efficiency and half-wave rectification up to 120 MHz. We also integrate several of the diodes to create a bridge rectifier circuit on a single microchip that can perform continuous full-wave rectification at up to 3 MHz and alternating to direct current conversion of a 50 MHz signal in periodic bursts with an estimated peak power efficiency of 50%.