Conductance enhancement in quantum-point-contact semiconductor-superconductor devices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 13762-13769

  Schomerus, Henning ^c   Jauho, A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0001745350     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.13762     Document Type: Article

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