Ballistic Josephson junctions in edge-contacted graphene

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 761-764

  Calado, V E ^a   Goswami, S ^a   Nanda, G ^a   Diez, M ^b   Akhmerov, A R ^a   Watanabe, K ^c   Taniguchi, T ^c   Klapwijk, T M ^a,d   Vandersypen, L M K ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; CRITICAL MAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; QUANTUM HALL REGIME; SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRODES; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; SUPERCONDUCTOR DEVICES;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE;

ARTICLE; BALLISTIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTION; CONDUCTANCE; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON; ENCAPSULATION; OSCILLATION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 84941167496     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.156     Document Type: Article

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