Point-Contact Spectroscopy
Popular Physics
2007-05-23 v1 General Physics
Abstract
The history is described of how one of the most commonly used electric circuit components, an ordinary electric contact, has become a powerful tool for the physicists to study various mechanisms of electron scattering in metals. The physical principles of spectroscopy of quasi-particle excitations in metals by means of point contacts (PCs) whose dimensions range from only a few to tens of nanometers are presented in a popular form.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0312016,
title = {Point-Contact Spectroscopy},
author = {Yu. G. Naidyuk and I. K. Yanson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0312016},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
32 pages, 15 Figs., Translation from the Russian edition