PULSES INDUCED IN TUNNELING CURRENTS BETWEEN SUPERCONDUCTORS BY ALPHA-PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT
- 15 October 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 15 (8) , 237-239
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1652983
Abstract
A superconducting tunnel junction was bombarded with alpha particles and the resulting pulses in the quasiparticle tunneling current were observed. The possibility of utilizing this effect in nuclear spectrometry is discussed.Keywords
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