Macroscopic quantum tunneling in d-wave YBa2Cu3O 7-δ josephson junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Bauch, T ^a   Lombardi, F ^a   Tafuri, F ^b   Barone, A ^c   Rotoli, G ^d   Delsing, P ^a   Claeson, T ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIEPITAXIAL; ESCAPE RATE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; QUANTUM TUNNELING;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 18244392690     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.087003     Document Type: Article

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