Nonequilibrium Josephson-like effects in wide mesoscopic SNS junctions

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 861-875

  Argaman, Nathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NRCN   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

ANDREEV BOUND STATE; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; MESOSCOPIC JUNCTIONS; NONEQUILIBRIUM SUPERCURRENTS; SHAPIRO STEP;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0032627399     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/spmi.1999.0724     Document Type: Article

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