Characterization of NbN/AlN/NbN tunnel junctions

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 3, 1999, Pages 3259-3262

  Wang, Zhen ^a   Terai, Hirotaka ^a   Kawakami, Akira ^a   Uzawa, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MAGNESIA; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

NIOBIUM NITRIDE; SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0032684129     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.783724     Document Type: Article

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