Experimental ratchet effect in superconducting films with periodic arrays of asymmetric potentials

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Villegas, J E ^a   Gonzalez, E M ^a   Gonzalez, M P ^a   Anguita, J V ^b   Vicent, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; NIOBIUM;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DEVICE; FILM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOTION; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 16844368717     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.024519     Document Type: Article

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