Fabrication of High Quality Nb/AlOx-Al/Nb Josephson Junctions: II—Deposition of Thin A1 Layers on Nb Films

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 84-94

  Imamura, Takeshi ^a   Hasuo, Shinya ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM AND ALLOYS--THIN FILMS; NIOBIUM AND ALLOYS--FILMS; SPECTROSCOPY, PHOTOELECTRON;

ALUMINUM OXIDES;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0026880728     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: 15582515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.139224     Document Type: Article

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