Abstract:
The transition of a semiconductor to a superconducting state leads to a decrease in the thermionic current in the metal-superconducting semiconductor junction in the range of voltages close to the potential barrier height. Changes in the current-voltage characteristic are determined by the temperature and the energy gap parameter of the superconductor.
Citation:
G. V. Kuznetsov, “Thermionic current in a metal-superconducting semiconductor junction”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 74:10 (2001), 556–559; JETP Letters, 74:10 (2001), 495–497