Switching current distributions and macroscopic quantum tunneling in over-doped BSCCO mesas with nanometer thickness

Superconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Kakeya, I ^a   Hamada, K ^a   Tachiki, T ^a   Watanabe, T ^b   Suzuki, M ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SCALE; BI-2223; CONTACT PROBLEM; CROSSOVER TEMPERATURE; CUPRATES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-VACUUM; INTRINSIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTION; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM TUNNELING; MESA STRUCTURE; MICRON SCALE; NANOMETER THICKNESS; RETRAPPING; SWITCHING CURRENTS; SWITCHING DYNAMICS; SWITCHING PROBABILITY; THERMAL ESCAPE; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

CALCIUM; COPPER COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; LEAD; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); WIND TUNNELS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 70350672612     PISSN: 09532048     EISSN: 13616668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/22/11/114014     Document Type: Article

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