Influence of the shape of the electrodes on the tunnel current

Low Temperature Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 730-736

  Keijsers, R J P ^a   Voets, J ^a   Shklyarevskii, O I ^a,b   Van Kempen, H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b B VERKIN INSTITUTE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; IRIDIUM ALLOYS; LEAD ALLOYS; PLATINUM ALLOYS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

BREAK JUNCTIONS; ELECTRODE SPACING; EXPONENTIAL BEHAVIORS; HIGHLY STABLES; THEORETICAL STUDY; TUNNEL CURRENTS; TUNNEL RESISTANCE; TWO ELECTRODES;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 33744714295     PISSN: 1063777X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.593676     Document Type: Article

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