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We have studied the tunneling current of a superconductor-insulator-normal tunnel junction connected to a nonequilibrium superconductor in which nonvanishing charge imbalance is present, by injection experiments using multiterminal devices fabricated with electron beam lithography. We found that the tunneling current could be separated into excess current, due to charge imbalance, and normal current, which showed clear and different dependences on the bias voltage, as expected from the theory of charge imbalance [M. Tinkham, Phys. Rev. B 6, 1747 (1972)]. We also found in the analysis of the normal current that nonequilibrium distributions were created in the normal electrode; they were presumably caused by excitation due to hot electrons that tunneled from the nonequilibrium superconductor.
journal title
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
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Volume 73
issue
Issue 13
start page
134507-1
end page
134507-4
date of issued
2006-04-07
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American Physical Society
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1098-0121
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eng
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Copyright (c) 2006 American Physical Society.
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Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter