Broadband method for precise microwave spectroscopy of superconducting thin films near the critical temperature

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Kitano, Haruhisa ^a   Ohashi, Takeyoshi ^b   Maeda, Atsutaka ^b  

^a AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVES; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

BROADBAND MEASUREMENTS; COMPLEX CONDUCTIVITIES; COMPLEX REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGH RESOLUTIONS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 49149086880     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2954957     Document Type: Article

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