Attojoule calorimetry of mesoscopic superconducting loops

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Bourgeois, O ^a,b   Skipetrov, S E ^b   Ong, F ^a,b   Chaussy, J ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTOJOULE CALORIMETRY; GINZBURG-LANDAU THEORY; MESOSCOPIC SUPERCONDUCTING LOOPS; THIN SILICON MEMBRANE;

ALUMINUM; CALORIMETRY; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETORESISTANCE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMODYNAMICS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 18144394674     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.057007     Document Type: Article

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