Andreev reflection and strongly enhanced magnetoresistance oscillations in Gax In1-x As InP heterostructures with superconducting contacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Batov, Igor E ^a,b,c,e   Schäpers, Thomas ^b   Chtchelkatchev, Nikolai M ^d   Hardtdegen, Hilde ^b   Ustinov, Alexey V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e CNR   (Italy)

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EID: 34548805815     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.115313     Document Type: Article

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