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Semiconductor diodes rectify electrical current to go in one direction only and hold significant technological importance in electronic devices [1]. On the other hand, supercurrent diodes rectify dissipationless supercurrent [2–4], and can serve as key elements of electronic circuits at cryogenic temperatures [5, 6]. To unlock such functionality, it is essential to find supercurrent diodes that can work consistently not only at zero magnetic field, but also under ubiquitous stray fields in a typical circuit environment. However, most of the zero-field supercurrent diodes discovered so far need to be initiated by a magnetic field [7–12], and the supercurrent rectification can be corrupted frequently by stray fields. Here, we demonstrate a stray-field-resilient supercurrent diode by incorporating a van der Waals multiferroic NiI2 [13–15] between two superconductors to form a Josephson junction. We observe a zero-field supercurrent diode effect with a rectification efficiency of eight percent. More importantly, the supercurrent rectification persists over a bipolar magnetic field range beyond an industrial test standard for field tolerance. By theoretically modeling a multiferroic Josephson junction, we unveil that the inter- play between a helimagnetic order and interfacial spin-orbit coupling underlies the unusual stray-field-resilient nature of the NiI2 Josephson junction. This work introduces multiferroic Josephson junctions as a new strategy for stray-field-resilient superconducting devices with potential electrical gate tunability for applications in cryogenic electronics.

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Keyword: supercurrent diode
, multiferroic
, Josephson junction

Date published: 2025-10-21

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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• Nature Communications (ISSN: 20411723) vol. 16 issue. 1 9287

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• United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Office W911NF-16-1-0472

Manuscript type: Publisher's version (Version of record)

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First published URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63698-3

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