Subgap density of states in superconductor-normal metal bilayers in the cooper limit

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 25, 2004, Pages

  Long, Zhenyi ^a   Stewart Jr , M D ^a   Kouh, Taejoon ^a,b   Valles Jr , James M ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDREEV SCATTERING; COOPER LIMIT; DENSITY OF STATES (DOS); FERMI FUNCTION;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONDENSATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CRYOSTATS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVAPORATION; FERMI LEVEL; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAD ALLOYS; METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION; OPTIMIZATION; QUENCHING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

BIMETALS;

EID: 42749099214     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.257001     Document Type: Article

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