Issue
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 39, Number C6, Août 1978
The XVth International Conference on low temperature physics
Quantum Fluids and Solids
Superconductivity
Page(s) C6-595 - C6-596
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:19786268
The XVth International Conference on low temperature physics
Quantum Fluids and Solids
Superconductivity

J. Phys. Colloques 39 (1978) C6-595-C6-596

DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:19786268

OBSERVATION OF SUBHARMONIC GAP STRUCTURES IN SUPERCONDUCTING THIN FILM TUNNEL JUNCTIONS FAVOURING MULTIPARTICLE TUNNELING THEORY

P. Mukhopadhyay

Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Fack, S-402 20 Gothenburg, Sweden


Résumé
Les jonctions tunnel composées aussi bien de supraconducteurs identiques ou différents présentent des structures subharmoniques qui semblent pouvoir être expliquées de façon satisfaisante par des effets tunnels à plusieurs particules.


Abstract
Subharmonic gap structures are seen in both symmetric and asymmetric superconducting tunnel junctions based on oxidized PbIn electrodes. The shape, amplitude and the relative magnitudes of the observed structures seem to favour multiparticle tunneling as the plausible explanation.