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Microwaves from a tin sandwich

SEP 01, 1965
Physics Today

Three years ago, in England, a young graduate student quietly advanced the theory that supercurrents can be expected to flow across a sandwich consisting of two superconductors separated by an insulating barrier. Since then, a growing ripple of excitement has been stirring the solid‐state physics community as the predictions contained in his theory have been verified one by one.

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