Superconducting junction of a single-crystalline Au nanowire for an ideal Josephson device

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2271-2276

  Jung, Minkyung ^a   Noh, Hyunho ^a   Doh, Yong Joo ^b   Song, Woon ^a   Chong, Yonuk ^a   Choi, Mahn Soo ^b   Yoo, Youngdong ^c   Seo, Kwanyong ^c   Kim, Nam ^a   Woo, Byung Chill ^a   Kim, Bongsoo ^c   Kim, Jinhee ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Au nanowire; Josephson junction; Shapiro step; single crystalline; superconducting proximity effect

Indexed keywords

AU NANOWIRES; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; SHAPIRO STEP; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SUPERCONDUCTING PROXIMITY EFFECT;

ALUMINUM; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC WIRE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; NANOWIRES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 79952911748     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1035679     Document Type: Article

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