Carbon nanotubes as nanoscale probes of the superconducting proximity effect in Pd-Nb junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Tselev, Alexander ^a   Yang, Yanfei ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Barbara, Paola ^a   Shafranjuk, Serhii E ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70249100583     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.054504     Document Type: Article

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