Spatially resolved tunneling spectroscopy of superconducting wires with artificial pinning centers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 480-482

  Levi, Y ^a   Millo, O ^a   Rizzo, N D ^b   Prober, D E ^b   Motowidlo, L R ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c IGC AS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTIFICIAL PINNING CENTER; QUASI PARTICLE DENSITY OF STATE;

SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE;

EID: 0031648104     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120792     Document Type: Article

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