Ultimately short ballistic vertical graphene Josephson junctions

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lee, Gil Ho ^a,b   Kim, Sol ^a   Jhi, Seung Hoon ^a   Lee, Hu Jong ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; ELECTRODE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; VERTICAL GRAPHENE JOSEPHSON JUNCTION;

EID: 84940098259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7181     Document Type: Article

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