Disorder-induced andreev reflections in granular metals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 8432-8435

  Frydman, A ^a   Dynes, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000970796     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.8432     Document Type: Article

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10. The non-Ohmic resistance background appears to broaden the gap features. The introduction of a broadening parameter was not sufficient to obtain good fits with the theory. Nevertheless, the results from these fits agree qualitatively with the arguments in the text.