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Point-Contact Spectroscopy

Yu. G. Naidyuk, I. K. Yanson

physics.pop-pharXiv:physics/0312016

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.

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