Avalanche-driven fractal flux distributions in NbN superconducting films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Rudnev, I A ^a   Shantsev, D V ^b,c   Johansen, T H ^b,d   Primenko, A E ^e  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDRITIC FLUX; DENDRITIC INSTABILITY; FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL (MO) IMAGING;

BINARY ALLOYS; CURRENT DENSITY; FRACTALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 23744452055     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1992673     Document Type: Article

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