Inhomogeneous response of superconducting tunnel junctions with a killed electrode for x-ray spectroscopy

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 7, Issue 2 PART 3, 1997, Pages 3363-3366

  Van Den Berg, M L ^a   Bruijn, M P ^a   Gomez, J ^a   Kiewiet, F B ^a   De Korte P A J ^a   Van Lieshout, H L ^a   Luiten, O J ^a  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NIOBIUM; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

LOW TEMPERATURE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (LTSEM); QUASIPARTICLES; SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0031166332     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.622092     Document Type: Article

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