| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 49, Number 2, January II 2000
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 237 - 243 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00139-0 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Effect of the electromagnetic environment on arrays of small normal metal tunnel junctions: Numerical and experimental investigation
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä P.O. Box 35 (Y5),
FIN-40351, Jyväskylä, Finland
Received:
3
August
1999
Accepted:
8
November
1999
We present results of a set of experiments to investigate the effect of a dissipative external electromagnetic
environment on tunneling in linear arrays of junctions in the weak-tunneling regime. The influence of
this resistance decreases as the number of junctions in the chain increases and ultimately becomes
negligible. Further, there is a value of external impedance, typically 
, at which
the half-width of the zero-voltage dip in the conductance curve shows a maximum. Some new analytical
formulae, based on the phase-correlation theory, along with numerical results will be presented.
PACS: 73.23.Hk – Coulomb blockade; single-electron tunneling / 73.40.Gk – Tunneling / 73.40.Rw – Metal insulator metal structures
© EDP Sciences, 2000
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