A Transient EHL Analysis for Point Contacts with Consideration of Direct Contacts.

Sensing with Superconducting Point Contacts

Superconducting point contacts have been used for measuring magnetic polarizations, identifying magnetic impurities, electronic structures, and even the vibrational modes of small molecules. Due to intrinsically small energy scale in the subgap structures of the supercurrent determined by the size of the superconducting energy gap, superconductors provide ultrahigh sensitivities for high resolu...

An Investigation into Grease Behavior in Thermal EHL Circular Contacts

The behaviors of two lithium lubricating greases were investigated under EHL circular contact through measurements of traction coefficients on a self-made rig in which the contact was continuously fed with fresh grease. The average values of Erying shear stress and shear modulus of the two lithium greases were obtained from traction experimental data using this rig. Based on the Evans-Johnson m...

Aluminum break-point contacts

Imaging in Quantum Point Contacts

Alessandro Cresti , Giuseppe Grosso (2) and Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini (3) (1) NEST-INFM, Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy, and Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy [email protected] (2) NEST-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy (3) NEST-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica ...

Localized plasmons in point contacts

Using a hydrodynamic model of the electron fluid in a point contact geometry we show that localized plasmons are likely to exist near the constriction. We attempt to relate these plasmons with the recent experimental observation of deviations of the quantum point contact conductance from ideal integer quantization. As a function of temperature this deviation exhibits an activated behavior, exp(...