Measurements of flux-dependent screening in aharonov-bohm rings

Deblock1, Noat, Bouchiat

  • 1Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Associe au CNRS, Batiment 510, Universite Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France.

Physical Review Letters
|September 16, 2000
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