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Tunneling Barriers

Tunneling Barriers is a physical phenomenon in interface engineering characterized by the energy barrier at a junction or heterostructure that governs the probability of charge carriers traversing through a classically forbidden region via quantum mechanical tunneling.

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Tunneling Barrier

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Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling

Brian D. Josephson · Physics Letters · 1962 · 4K citations

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Transition from metallic to tunneling regimes in superconducting microconstrictions: Excess current, charge imbalance, and supercurrent conversion

G. E. Blonder, M. Tinkham, T. M. Klapwijk · Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1982 · 3.6K citations

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Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers

S. Parkin, Christian Kaiser, Alex Panchula et al. · Nature Materials · 2004 · 3.3K citations

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Tunnel field-effect transistors as energy-efficient electronic switches

Adrian M. Ionescu, Heike Riel · Nature · 2011 · 2.9K citations · Full text

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The Penetration of a Potential Barrier by Electrons

Carl Eckart · Physical Review · 1930 · 2.4K citations

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  1. LE
    L. Eaves

    University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

    19 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. JS
    Jagadeesh S. Moodera

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    13 publications · 2.1K citations

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  3. TC
    T. C. McGill

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    13 publications · 795 citations

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  4. KW
    Kenji Watanabe

    National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

    13 publications · 1K citations

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  5. SM
    Shunichi Muto

    Fujitsu (Japan), Japan

    11 publications · 455 citations

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  1. IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

    Yorktown Heights, United States

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    161 publications

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  2. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    28 h-index

    87 publications

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  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    27 h-index

    109 publications

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  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    27 h-index

    240 publications

    16.1K citations

  5. IBM (United States)

    Armonk, United States

    22 h-index

    57 publications

    28.7K citations

  6. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    22 h-index

    97 publications

    4.8K citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

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    81 publications

    3.9K citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    20 h-index

    59 publications

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 136 publications · 17K citations

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  2. Applied Physics Letters

    276 publications · 17.8K citations

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  3. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 172 publications · 14.1K citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Physics

    183 publications · 8.3K citations

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  5. Physical Review B

    PRB · 74 publications · 3.2K citations

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