Thermally activated spontaneous fluxoid formation in superconducting thin film rings

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 25 I, 2003, Pages 2570011-2570014

  Kirtley, J R ^a   Tsuei, C C ^a   Tafuri, F ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COOLING; MICROSCOPES; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; QUENCHING; SQUIDS; THIN FILMS;

FLUXOIDS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 0042267346     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.90.257001     Document Type: Article

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