Construction of a Cantilever-Andreev-Tunneling rig and its applications to superconductors

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Park, W K ^a   Greene, L H ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER-ANDREEV-TUNNELING; CONTACT FORMATION; HEAVY-FERMION; ORDER PARAMETER;

ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERMIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

CANTILEVER BEAMS;

EID: 33644633463     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2168670     Document Type: Article

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