Reliability of normal-state current - Voltage characteristics as an indicator of tunnel-junction barrier quality

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1870-1872

  Jonsson Akerman B J ^b   Escudero, R ^a,b   Leighton, C ^b   Kim, S ^b   Schuller, Ivan K ^b   Rabson, D A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN MATERIALES   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 0012304888     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1310633     Document Type: Article

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