@article{46d93d5c4e3c4b64863581d024e95291,
title = "Construction of a Cantilever-Andreev-Tunneling rig and its applications to superconductors",
abstract = "A technique for point-contact spectroscopy, based on an electromechanical mechanism for the contact formation, has been developed. It is designed to be used in both He4 and He3 cryostats. The performance has been demonstrated by conductance measurements on various kinds of superconductors, including the conventional superconductor Nb, the two-band superconductor MgB2, and the heavy-fermion superconductor CeCoIn5. Characteristic conductance spectra obtained prove that this technique is useful for the investigation of the superconducting order parameter. Advantages of this technique such as its simplicity and versatility are described.",
author = "Park, {W. K.} and Greene, {L. H.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are grateful to C. Gulyash and S. Schultz for their excellent machining work, J. L. Sarrao and J. D. Thompson at Los Alamos National Laboratory for providing CeCoIn 5 single crystals, B. Moeckly at Superconducting Technology Inc., J. M. Rowell at the Arizona State University, P. Orgiani and Q. Li at the Pennsylvania State University for providing MgB 2 thin films, and J. Elenewski, B. F. Wilken, K. Parkinson, A. N. Thaler, P. J. Hentges, M. K. Brinkley, C. J. Ramsey, J. B. McMinis, A. O{\textquoteright}Brien, X. Lu, and W. L. Feldmann for their experimental help. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Division of Materials Sciences under Award No. DEFG02-91ER45439, through the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and the Center for Microanalysis of Materials at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1063/1.2168670",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "77",
journal = "Review of Scientific Instruments",
issn = "0034-6748",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics",
number = "2",
}