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Superconductive tunneling in vanadium with gaseous impurities

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev., B, v. 12, no. 11, pp. 4882-4885
Electron-tunneling measurements have been made in vanadium films containing varying amounts of gaseous impurities. Transition temperatures T/subc/ vary from near the bulk value to more than 2 K below it. After corrections are made for spurious leakage conductivity, tunneling characteristics are in all cases consistent with a simple BCS superconducting density of states. T/subc/ and the zero-temperature energy gap epsilon (0) vary in accordance with 2epsilon (0)/kT/subc/ = 3.5 plus-or-minus 0.1. In consequence, it does not appear that gaseous impurities enter the vanadium lattice in a paramagnetic configuration. (AIP)
Research Organization:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
NSA Number:
NSA-33-017771
OSTI ID:
4112759
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev., B, v. 12, no. 11, pp. 4882-4885, Journal Name: Phys. Rev., B, v. 12, no. 11, pp. 4882-4885; ISSN PLRBA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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