A probe for the investigation of the superconducting metastable state in YBa2Cu3O7-x step-edge junctions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 72, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 1760-1762

  Barbanera, S ^a   Castellano, M G ^a   Torrioli, G ^a   Cirillo, M ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

JOSEPHSON CURRENT; PAIR TUNNELING PROCESS; SUPERCONDUCTING METASTABLE STATE; SWITCHING DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL ACTIVATION;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0032489743     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.121176     Document Type: Article

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