Shot noise beyond the Tucker theory in niobium tunnel junction mixers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1653-1655

  Dieleman, P ^a   Klapwijk, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MIXER CIRCUITS; NIOBIUM; RADIATION DETECTORS; SHOT NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

BARRIER DEFECTS; HETERODYNE MIXER; TUCKER THEORY;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0032025420     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.121142     Document Type: Article

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