Reversing the direction of the supercurrent in a controllable Josephson junction

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6714, 1999, Pages 43-45

  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 CURRENTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ENERGY GAP; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM PHASE; SUPERCONDUCTOR NORMAL METAL SUPERCONDUCTOR JUNCTION; SUPERCURRENT;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

METAL; NIOBIUM;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; ENERGY; FLOW; INTERFEROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0033531162     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16204     Document Type: Article

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