Quantum oscillations of the critical current and high-field superconducting proximity in ballistic graphene

Nature Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 318-322

  Ben Shalom, M ^a   Zhu, M J ^a   Fal'ko, V I ^a   Mishchenko, A ^a   Kretinin, A V ^a   Novoselov, K S ^a   Woods, C R ^a   Watanabe, K ^b   Taniguchi, T ^b   Geim, A K ^a   Prance, J R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM; FRAUNHOFER PATTERNS; GRAPHENE JUNCTIONS; JUNCTION PROPERTIES; NORMAL-STATE RESISTANCE; QUANTUM OSCILLATIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING PROXIMITY; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84949907734     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3592     Document Type: Article

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