Proximity electron tunnelling spectroscopy of Ta: inapplicability of an 'empirical model'
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics
- Vol. 11 (1), L23-L27
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4608/11/1/005
Abstract
Proximity electron tunnelling spectroscopy (PETS) is applied to Ta, yielding results in agreement with those obtained by conventional tunnelling. The inapplicability of a recent 'empirical model' to such clean NS proximity junctions is commented upon.Keywords
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