Masking effect of heat dissipation on the current-voltage characteristics of a mesoscopic superconducting sample with leads

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 18, 2005, Pages

  Vodolazov, D Y ^a,b   Peeters, F M ^a   Morelle, M ^c   Moshchalkov, V V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

^c KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 28544435224     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.184502     Document Type: Article

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