ANDREEV REFLECTION CURRENT IN CLEAN AND ONE-DIMENSIONAL Nb SHORT WEAK LINKS

被引:5
作者
Hamasaki, K. [1 ]
Abe, H. [1 ]
机构
[1] Nagaoka Univ Technol, Dept Elect Engn, Kamitomioka 1603, Nagaoka, Niigata 94021, Japan
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10.1109/77.233565
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Nb-(fine Nb wires)-NbN short weak links (SWLs) have been reproducibly fabricated by field evaporation technique. By this method, we could continuously vary the I-V curve from insulator to tunnel-like and finally to that of metallic contact. The quasiparticle characteristics are qualitatively very similar to the prediction of Klapwijk, Blonder and Tinkham(KBT) theory for the simple case of two independent normal metal-superconductor(NS) interfaces in the clean contact limit.
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页码:2215 / 2218
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