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Tunneling Model of the Superconducting Proximity Effect

1968; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 175; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrev.175.537

1536-6065

W. L. McMillan,

Magnetic properties of thin films

We study a simple theoretical model of the proximity effect between superposed normal and superconducting metal films. We imagine a potential barrier between the films and treat electron transmission through the barrier as a tunneling process. For thin films the model is soluble, and we can treat the BCS potential self-consistently and calculate the excitation spectrum. We compute the transition temperature, the energy gap, and the electronic density of states for comparison with tunneling experiments.