Collapse of superconductivity in a hybrid tin-graphene Josephson junction array

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 380-386

  Han, Zheng ^a,b   Allain, Adrien ^a,b   Arjmandi Tash, Hadi ^a,b   Tikhonov, Konstantin ^c,d   Feigel'Man, Mikhail ^c,e   Sacépé, Benjamin ^a,b   Bouchiat, Vincent ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^c LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON GAS; GROUND STATE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; TIN;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAYS; NORMAL-STATE RESISTANCE; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; PROXIMITY-INDUCED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; QUANTUM PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING DISCS; SUPERCONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84899965748     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2929     Document Type: Article

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