Signatures of evanescent transport in ballistic suspended graphene-superconductor junctions

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kumaravadivel, Piranavan ^a,b   Du, Xu ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84964328784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24274     Document Type: Article

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