Supercurrent-induced Peltier-like effect in superconductor/normal-metal weak links

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Heikkilä, Tero T ^a   Vänskä, Tommy ^a   Wilhelm, Frank K ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0038079452     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.100502     Document Type: Article

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