Tunable supercurrent in superconductor/normal metal/superconductor Josephson junctions

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 973-982

  Baselmans, J J A ^a   Morpurgo, A F ^a,b   Van Wees, B J ^a   Klapwijk, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; MESOSCOPIC SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TUNABLE SUPERCURRENTS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0032654812     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/spmi.1999.0720     Document Type: Article

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