Current-phase relationship, thermal and quantum phase slips in superconducting nanowires made on a scaffold created using adhesive tape

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1889-1896

  Bae, Myung Ho ^a   Dinsmore III, Robert C ^a   Aref, Thomas ^a   Brenner, Matthew ^a   Bezryadin, Alexey ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE TAPES; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; META-STABLE STATE; MICROWAVE RESPONSE; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; PHASE SLIPS; QUANTUM BITS; QUANTUM MODELS; QUANTUM PHASE; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; TEMPERATURE CURVES;

ELECTRIC WIRE; MICROWAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING TAPES; SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 66549098454     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl803894m     Document Type: Article

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