Fabrication of all-NbN Josephson Tunnel Junctions Using Single Crystal NbN Films for the Base Electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 3184-3187

  Shoji, A ^a  

^a ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; SPUTTERING; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

JOSEPHSON TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0026116749     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.133888     Document Type: Article

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