Observation of Coherent Charge-State Mixing in Asymmetric Bloch Transistors

Journal of Superconductivity

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 813-817

  Flees, D J ^a   Han, S ^b   Lukens, J E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloch transistor; Cooper pair tunneling; Quantum coherence; Single electron tunneling (SET)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001510075     PISSN: 08961107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007797329201     Document Type: Article

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