Subgap structure in asymmetric superconducting tunnel junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Ternes, Markus ^a   Schneider, Wolf Dieter ^a   Cuevas, Juan Carlos ^b   Lutz, Christopher P ^c   Hirjibehedin, Cyrus F ^c   Heinrich, Andreas J ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 33749322945     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.132501     Document Type: Article

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