Lateral-Size Effects and Supercurrent Blockade at Mechanical-Controllable Break Junctions of the Heavy-Fermion Superconductors

Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 873-884

  Gloos, K ^a   Anders, F B ^a,b   Assmus W ^c   Buschinger, B ^a   Geibel, C ^a   Kim, J S ^d   Menovsky, A A ^e   Muller Reisener R ^a   Nuettgens, S ^c   Schank, C ^a   Stewart, G R ^d,f   Naidyuk, Yu G ^g  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^g B VERKIN INSTITUTE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OHMIC CONTACTS;

HEAVY FERMION SUPERCONDUCTORS; VACUUM TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0031996749     PISSN: 00222291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1022633028112     Document Type: Article

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