DEPENDENCE OF CRITICAL-CURRENT DENSITY ON OXYGEN EXPOSURE IN NB-ALOX-NB TUNNEL-JUNCTIONS

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KLEINSASSER, AW
MILLER, RE
MALLISON, WH
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[1] IBM CORP,THOMAS J WATSON RES CTR,YORKTOWN HTS,NY 10598
[2] AT&T BELL LABS,MURRAY HILL,NJ 07974
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10.1109/77.384565
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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We demonstrate that a large fraction of the available data relating the critical current density J(c) of superconducting Nb-AlOx-Nb tunnel junctions to oxidation parameters can be accounted for by a single, nearly universal dependence, For fixed oxidation temperature, J(c) does not depend independently on oxygen partial pressure and oxidation time, but only on their product. There are two distinct regimes in this dependence, corresponding to high and low J(c).
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