Josephson current in nanofabricated V/Cu/V mesoscopic junctions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  García, Ćsar Pascual ^a   Giazotto, Francesco ^a  

^a INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SIZES; DIFFUSIVE REGIMES; JOSEPHSON; JOSEPHSON COUPLINGS; JOSEPHSON CURRENTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOSCOPIC; MESOSCOPIC JUNCTIONS; NANO-DEVICES; SWITCHING CURRENTS; WEAK LINKS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 64149089002     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3114522     Document Type: Article

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