Ultimate sensitivity of the single cooper pair tunneling electrometer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 299-302

  Zorin, Alexander B ^a,b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Charging and Josephson effects; Quantum fluctuations; Single electron tunneling; Small tunnel junctions

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RESISTORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

SINGLE COOPER PAIR TUNNELING;

ELECTROMETERS;

EID: 0031117655     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.571838     Document Type: Article

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