Relevant energy scale in hybrid mesoscopic Josephson junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Carillo, Franco ^a   Born, Detlef ^a,b   Pellegrini, Vittorio ^a   Tafuri, Francesco ^a,b   Biasiol, Giorgio ^c   Sorba, Lucia ^a   Beltram, Fabio ^a  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

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EID: 50449102079     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.052506     Document Type: Article

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