Anomalous modulation of a zero-bias peak in a hybrid nanowire- superconductor device

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Finck, A D K ^a   Van Harlingen, D J ^a   Mohseni, P K ^b   Jung, K ^b   Li, X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCES; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; HYBRID NANOWIRES; NIOBIUM NITRIDE; SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES; SUPERCONDUCTOR DEVICES; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; ZERO-BIAS ANOMALY;

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84875467477     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.126406     Document Type: Article

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