Applied physics: Tunable supercurrent through semiconductor nanowires

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5732, 2005, Pages 272-275

  Doh, Yong Joo ^a   Van Dam, Jorden A ^a   Roest, Aarnoud L ^a,b   Bakkers, Erik P A M ^b   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a   De Franceschi, Silvano ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRODES; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; IRRADIATION; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SUPERCHARGERS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

GATE VOLTAGES; NANOWIRES; SUPERCONDUCTOR ELECTRODES; SUPERCURRENTS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ALUMINUM; NANOWIRE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 22044447381     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1113523     Document Type: Article

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