Superconducting Bolometers

"Energy resolution of terahertz single-photon-sensitive bolometric detectors," D.F. Santavicca, B. Reulet, B.S. Karasik, S.V. Pereverzev, D. Olaya, M.E. Gershenson, L. Frunzio and D.E. Prober, submitted (2009). [arXiv:0906.1205]

"Astronomers look to nanotechnology," D.E. Prober, Nature Nanotech. 3, 459-460 (2008). [PDF]

"Superconducting microbolometers for time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy," D.F. Santavicca, A.J. Annunziata, M.O. Reese, L. Frunzio and D.E. Prober, Proc. SPIE 6772, 67720Q (2007). [PDF]

"A Far-Infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometer with an Antenna-Coupled Niobium Bolometer," D.F. Santavicca, A.J. Annunziata, M.O. Reese, L. Frunzio and D.E. Prober, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 20, S398-S402 (2007). [PDF]

"Niobium Direct Detectors for Fast and Sensitive Terahertz Spectroscopy," M.O. Reese, D.F. Santavicca, D.E. Prober, A.B. True and C.A. Schmuttenmaer, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 78, 086111 (2007). [PDF]

"Antenna-Coupled Niobium Bolometers for Terahertz Spectroscopy," D.F. Santavicca, M.O. Reese, A.B. True, C.A. Schmuttenmaer, and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 17(2), 412 (2007). [PDF]

"Niobium Hot Electron Bolometer Devolopment for a Submillimeter Heterodyne Array Camera," M.O. Reese, D.F. Santavicca, L. Frunzio, and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 17(2), 403 (2007). [PDF]

"Nb-Au bilayer hot-electron bolometers for low-noise THz heterodyne detection," I. Siddiqi and D.E. Prober, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 1404 (2004). [PDF]

"Heterodyne Mixing in Diffusion-Cooled Superconducting Aluminum Hot-Electron Bolometers," I. Siddiqi, A. Verevkin, D.E. Prober, A. Skalare, W.R. McGrath, P.M. Echternach and H.G. LeDuc, J. Appl. Phys. 91, 4646 (2002). [PDF]

"Noise and Conversion Efficiency of Aluminum Superconducting Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixer," I. Siddiqi, A. Verevkin, D.E. Prober, A. Skalare, B.S. Karasik, W.R. McGrath, P. Echternach and H.G. LeDuc, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 11, 958 (2001). [PDF]

"Aluminum Hot-Electron Bolometer Mixers at Submillimeter Wavelengths," A. Skalare, W. R. McGrath, P.M. Echternach, H.G. LeDuc, I. Siddiqi, A. Verevkin and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 11, 641 (2001). [PDF]

"Mixing and Noise in Diffusion and Phonon Cooled Superconducting Hot-Electron Bolometers," P.J. Burke, R.J. Schoelkopf and D.E. Prober, J. Appl. Phys. 85, 1644 (1999). [PDF]

"Spectrum of Thermal Fluctuation Noise in Diffusion and Phonon-Cooled Hot-Electron Mixers," P.J. Burke, R.J. Schoelkopf, D.E. Prober, A Skalare, B.S. Karasik, M.C. Gaidis, W.R. McGrath, B. Bumble and H.G. LeDuc, Appl. Phys. Lett. 72, 1516 (1998). [PDF]

"Noise Bandwidth of Diffusion-Cooled Hot-Electron Bolometers," R.J. Schoelkopf, P.J. Burke, D.E. Prober, B. Karasik, A. Skalare, W.R. McGrath, M.C. Gaidis, B. Bumble and H.G. LeDuc, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 7, 3576 (1997). [PDF]

"Length scaling of bandwidth and noise in hot-electron superconducting mixers," P.J. Burke, R.J. Schoelkopf, D.E. Prober, A. Skalare, W.R. McGrath, B.Bumble and H.G. LeDuc, Appl. Phys. Lett. 68, 3344 (1996). [PDF]

"Large bandwidth and low noise in a diffusion-cooled hot-electron bolometer mixer," A. Skalare, W. R. McGrath, B. Bumble, H. G. LeDuc, P. J. Burke, A. A. Verheijen, R. J. Schoelkopf, and D. E. Prober, Appl. Phys. Lett. 68, 1558 (1996). [PDF]

"A heterodyne receiver at 533 GHz using a diffusion-cooled superconducting hot electron bolometer mixer," A. Skalare, W.R. McGrath, B. Bumble, H.G. LeDuc, P.J. Burke, A.A. Verheijen and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 5, 2236 (1995). [PDF]

"Superconducting Terahertz Mixer using a Transition-Edge Microbolometer," D.E. Prober, Appl. Phys. Lett. 62, 2119 (1993). [PDF]

Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

"Niobium superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors," A.J. Annunziata, D.F. Santavicca, J.D. Chudow, L. Frunzio, M.J. Rooks, A. Frydman and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 19(3), 327-331 (2009). [PDF]

"Superconducting Niobium Nanowire Single Photon Detectors," A.J. Annunziata, A. Frydman, M.O. Reese, L. Frunzio, M. Rooks, and D.E. Prober, Proc. SPIE 6372, 63720V (2006). [PDF]

Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

"Ultrasensitive Quantum-Limited Far-Infrared STJ Detectors," D.E. Prober, J.D. Teufel, C.M. Wilson, L. Frunzio, M. Shen, R.J. Schoelkopf, T.R. Stevenson, and E.J. Wollack, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 17(2), 241 (2007). [PDF]

"Enhancing the Energy Resolution of a Single-Photon STJ Spectrometer using Diffusion Engineering," V. Savu, L. Frunzio and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 17(2), 324 (2007). [PDF]

"Quasiparticle Dynamics and a New, High-Resolution Readout of STJ Photon Detectors," D.E. Prober, J.D. Teufel, L. Frunzio, C.M. Wilson, and R.J. Schoelkopf, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Phys. Research A 559 (2006) 676-679. [PDF]

"Diffusion-Engineered Quasiparticle Multiplication for STJ Single Photon Detectors," V. Savu, C.M. Wilson, L. Frunzio, D.E. Prober, and R.J. Schoelkopf, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 15, 609 (2005). [PDF]

"Photon-Counting Superconducting Detectors for Submillimeter Astronomy," L. Frunzio, J. Teufel, M. Shen, D.E. Prober, R.J. Schoelkopf, T.R. Stevenson and C.M. Stahle, Applied Superconductivity 2003, Eds. A. Andreone, G. P. Pepe, R. Cristiano and G. Masullo, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol (UK) and Philadelphia (USA), pp. 2943-2946 (2004). [PDF]

"Dynamics and Energy Distribution of Non-Equilibrium Quasiparticles in Superconducting Tunnel Junctions," K. Segall, C.M. Wilson, L. Li, L. Frunzio, S. Friedrich, M.C. Gaidis and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B 70, 214520 (2004). [PDF]

"Diffusion-engineered single-photon spectrometer for UV/visible detection," V. Savu, L. Li, A. Mukherjee, C.M. Wilson, L. Frunzio, D.E. Prober and R.J. Schoelkopf, Nuclear Instr. and Methods in Phys. Research A 520, 237 (2004). [PDF]

"Quasiparticle nonequilibrium dynamics in a superconducting Ta film," L. Li, L. Frunzio, C. M. Wilson, and D. E. Prober, J. Appl. Phys. 93, 1137 (2003). [PDF]

"Superconducting Tunnel Junction Detectors for Extreme Ultraviolet Applications," C.M. Wilson, L. Frunzio and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 13, 1120 (2003). [PDF]

"Physical Properties of the Superconducting Ta film absorber of an X-ray Photon Detector," L. Li, L. Frunzio, C.M. Wilson and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 13, 1124 (2003). [PDF]

"Quantum Partition Noise in a Superconducting Tunnel Junction," K. Segall and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B 64, 180508(R) (2001). [PDF]

"Improved Energy Resolution of X-ray Single Photon Imaging Spectrometers using Superconducting Tunnel Junctions," L. Li, L. Frunzio, C.M. Wilson and D.E. Prober, J. Appl. Phys. 90(7), 3645 (2001). [PDF]

"Detection of Single X-Ray Photons by an Annular Superconducting Tunnel Junction," L. Frunzio, L. Li, D.E. Prober, I.V. Vernik, M.P. Lisitskii, C. Nappi and R. Cristiano, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 2103 (2001). [PDF]

"A New Noise Source in Superconducting Tunnel Junction Photon Detectors," C.M. Wilson, L. Frunzio, K. Segall, L. Li, D.E. Prober, D. Schiminovich, B. Mazin, C. Martin and R. Vasquez, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 11, 645 (2001). [PDF]

"X-Ray Single Photon 1-D Imaging Spectrometers," L. Li, L. Frunzio, K. Segall, D.E. Prober, A.E. Szymkowiak and S.H. Moesley, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 11, 685 (2001). [PDF]

"Noise mechanisms in superconducting tunnel-junction detectors," K. Segall, C. Wilson, L. Frunzio, L. Li, S. Friedrich, M.C. Gaidis, D.E. Prober, A.E. Szymkowiak and S.H. Moseley, Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 3998 (2000). [PDF]

"Optical/UV Single-Photon Imaging Spectrometers Using Superconducting Tunnel Junctions," C.M. Wilson, K. Segall, L. Frunzio, L.Li, D.E. Prober, D. Schiminovich, B. Mazin, C. Martin and R. Vasquez, Nuclear Instr. and Methods in Phys. Research A 444, 449 (2000). [PDF]

"Single-Photon 2D Imaging X-ray Spectrometer Employing Trapping with Four Tunnel Junctions," L. Li, L. Frunzio, K. Segall, C.M. Wilson, D.E. Prober, A.E. Szymkowiak and S.H. Moseley, Nuclear Instr. and Methods in Phys. Research A 444, 228 (2000). [PDF]

"Single Photon Imaging X-Ray Spectrometers," K. Segall, C.M. Wilson, L. Li, A.K. Davies, R. Lathrop, M.C. Gaidis, D.E. Prober, A.E. Szymkowiak and S.H. Moseley, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 9, 3326 (1999). [PDF]

"Single Photon Imaging X-Rays Spectrometers Using Low Noise Current Preamplifiers with dc Voltage Bias," S. Friedrich, K. Segall, M.C. Gaidis, C.M. Wilson, D.E. Prober, P.J. Kindlmann, A.E. Szymkowiak and S.H. Moseley, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 7, 3383 (1997). [PDF]

"Experimental quasiparticle dynamics in a superconducting, imaging x-ray spectrometer," S. Friedrich, K. Segall, M.C. Gaidis, C.M. Wilson, D.E. Prober, A.E. Szymkowiak and S.H. Moseley, Appl. Phys. Lett. 71, 3901 (1997). [PDF]

"Superconducting Nb-Ta-Al-AlO_x-Al X-ray detectors with spatial resolution," S. Friedrich, K. Segall, M.C. Gaidis, D.S. Toledano, D.E. Prober, A.E. Szymkowiak and S.H. Moseley, Nucl. Inst. Methods A 370, 44 (1996). [PDF]

"A superconducting X-ray spectrometer with a tantalum absorber and lateral trapping," M.C. Gaidis, S. Friedrich, K. Segall, D.E. Prober, A.E. Szymkowiak and S.H. Moseley, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 6, 1 (1996). [PDF]

"Quasiparticle-tuned superconducting mixer," N.G. Ugras, A.H. Worsham, D. Winkler, and D.E. Prober, Appl. Phys. Lett. 62, 3519 (1993). [PDF]

"Superconducting Nb-Ta-Al-AlO_x-Al Tunnel Junctions for X-Ray Detection," M.C. Gaidis, S. Friedrich, D.E. Prober, A.E. Szymkowiak, and S.H. Moseley, J. Low Temp. Phys. 93, 605 (1993). [PDF]

"Superconducting Al-trilayer tunnel junctions for use as X-ray detectors," M.C. Gaidis, S. Friedrich, D.E. Prober, S.H. Moseley and A.E. Szymkowiak, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 3, 2088 (1993). [PDF]

"Quantum Tunneling Currents in a Superconducting Junction," A.H. Worsham, N.G. Ugras, D. Winkler, D.E. Prober, N.R. Erickson and P.F. Goldsmith, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 3034 (1991). [PDF]

"Quantum limited quasiparticle mixers at 100 GHz," C.A. Mears, Q. Hu, P.L. Richards, A.H. Worsham, D.E. Prober and A.V. Raisanen, IEEE Trans. Mag. 27, 3363 (1991). [PDF]

"High quality sub-micron trilayer tunnel junctions for a 100 GHz SIS receiver," A.H. Worsham, D.E. Prober, J.H. Kang, J.X. Przybysz and M.J. Rooks, IEEE Trans. Mag. 27, 3165 (1991). [PDF]

"A full-band waveguide SIS receiver with integrated tuning for 75-110 GHz," D. Winkler, N.G. Ugras, A.H. Worsham, D.E. Prober, N.R. Erickson and P.F. Goldsmith, IEEE Trans. Mag. 27, 2634 (1991). [PDF]

"Quantum-limited heterodyne detection of millimeter waves using superconducting tantalum tunnel junctions," C. A. Mears, Qing Hu, P. L. Richards, A. H. Worsham, D. E. Prober, and A. V. Raisanen, Appl. Phys. Lett. 57, 2487 (1990). [PDF]

"Accurate experimental and theoretical comparisons between superconductor-insulator-superconductor mixers showing weak and strong quantum effects," W. R. McGrath, P. L. Richards, D. W. Face, D. E. Prober, and F. L. Lloyd, J. Appl. Phys. 63, 2479 (1988). [PDF]

"Fabrication and dc characteristics of small-area tantalum and niobium superconducting tunnel junctions," D. W. Face and D. E. Prober, J. Appl. Phys. 62, 3257 (1987). [PDF]

"High quality Ta/PbBi tunnel junctions for 85-110 GHz SIS mixer experiments," G.-J. Cui, D.W. Face, E.K. Track, D.E. Prober, A.V. Raisanen, D.G. Crete and P.L. Richards IEEE Trans. Mag. 23, 688 (1987). [PDF]

"High quality tantalum superconducting tunnel junctions for microwave mixing in the quantum limit," D. W. Face, D. E. Prober, W. R. McGrath, and P. L. Richards, Appl. Phys. Lett. 48, 1098 (1986). [PDF]

"Electron tunneling in tantalum surface layers on niobium," S. T. Ruggiero, E. K. Track, D. E. Prober, G. B. Arnold, and M. J. DeWeert, Phys. Rev. B 34, 217 (1986). [PDF]

"Critical current behavior and oxide barrier properties of Ta surface layers on Nb," S.T. Ruggiero, G.B. Arnold, E. Track and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Mag. 21, 850 (1985). [PDF]

"Microwave mixing and direct detection using SIS and SIS' quasiparticle tunnel junctions," A.D. Smith, W.R. McGrath, P.L. Richards, R.E. Harris, F.L. Lloyd, D.E. Prober and P. Santhanam, IEEE Trans. Mag. 19, 490 (1983). [PDF]

"Large gain, negative resistance, and oscillations in superconducting quasiparticle heterodyne mixers," W. R. McGrath, P. L. Richards, A. D. Smith, H. van Kempen, R. A. Batchelor, D. E. Prober, and P. Santhanam, Appl. Phys. Lett. 39, 655 (1981). [PDF]

"Simulation of I-V curves of small Josephson tunnel junctions with finite capacitance," D. E. Prober, S. E. G. Slusky, and R. W. Henry, J. Appl. Phys. 52, 4145 (1981). [PDF]

"Negative resistance and conversion gain in SIS mixers," A.D. Smith, W.R. McGrath, P.L. Richards, H. van Kempen, D. Prober and P. Santhanam, Physica B+C 108, 1367 (1981). [PDF]

Carbon Nanotubes

"Terahertz resonances and bolometric response of a single-walled carbon nanotube," D.F. Santavicca and D.E. Prober, Proc. 33rd Int. Conf. on IR, Millimeter and THz Waves (IRMMW-THz 2008). [PDF]

Noise and Mesoscopic Phenomena

"Noise Thermal Impedance of a Diffusive Wire," B. Reulet and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 066602 (2005). [PDF]

"Higher Moments of Noise," B. Reulet, Les Houches Summer School of Theoretical Physics, Session LXXXI, Nanophysics: Coherence and Transport. NATO ASI. Eds. H. Bouchiat, Y. Gefen, S. Gueron, G. Montambaux and J. Dalibard, Elsevier (2005). (cond-mat/0502077) [PDF]

"Measurement of non-Gaussian shot noise: influence of the environment," B. Reulet, J. Senzier, L. Spietz, C.M. Wilson and D.E. Prober, Proceedings of the 39th Rencontres de Moriond on Quantum Information and Decoherence in Nanosystems in La Thiule, Italy (2004). [PDF]

"Quasiparticle number fluctuations in superconductors," C.M. Wilson and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B 69, 094524 (2004). [PDF]

"Measurement of non-Gaussian shot noise: influence of the environment," B. Reulet, L. Spietz, C.M. Wilson, J. Senzier and D.E. Prober, Proceedings of SPIE, Fluctutations and noise in materials, 5469-33:244-56 (2004). [PDF]

"Shot noise of mesoscopic NS structures: the role of Andreev Reflection," B. Reulet, D.E. Prober and W. Belzig, in Quantum Noise in Mesoscopic Physics, 73-91, Y.V. Nazarov (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003). [PDF]

"Phase sensitive shot noise in an Andreev interferometer," B. Reulet, A.A. Kozhevnikov, D.E. Prober, W. Belzig and Yu. V. Nazarov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 066601 (2003). [PDF]

"Environmental Effects in the Third Moment of Voltage Fluctuations in a Tunnel Junction," B. Reulet, J. Senzier and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 196601 (2003). [PDF]

"Time-Resolved Measurements of Thermodynamic Fluctuations of the Particle Number in a Nondegenerate Fermi Gas," C.M. Wilson, L. Frunzio and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 067004 (2001). [PDF]

"Observation of Photon-Assisted Noise in a Diffusive Normal Metal-Superconductor Junction," A.A. Kozhevnikov, R.J. Schoelkopf and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3398 (2000). [PDF]

"Shot Noise Measurements in Diffusive Normal Metal-Superconductor (N-S) Junctions," A.A. Kozhevnikov, R.J. Schoelkopf, L.E. Calvet, M.J. Rooks and D.E. Prober, J. Low Temp. Phys. 118, 671 (2000). [PDF]

"Radio frequency single electron transistor: A fast and sensitive electrometer analogous to the radio frequency superconducting quantum interference device," P. Wahlgren, R.J. Schoelkopf, A.A. Kozhevnikov, P. Delsing, D.E. Prober and T. Claeson, Journal of Superconductivity 12, 741-746 (1999). [PDF]

"Tunneling spectroscopy of bound and resonant states in superconducting proximity structures," Y. Levi, O. Millo, N.D. Rizzo, D.E. Prober and L.R. Motowidlo, Appl. Surface Science 144-145, 575 (1999). [PDF]

"Scanning tunneling microscope studies of the superconductor proximity effect," Y. Levi, O. Millo, N. D. Rizzo, D. E. Prober, and L. R. Motowidlo, Phys. Rev. B 58, 15128 (1998). [PDF]

"Low-temperature electron-phonon interaction in Si MOSFETs," R. J. Zieve, D. E. Prober, and R. G. Wheeler, Phys. Rev. B 57, 2443 (1998). [PDF]

"The Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistor (RF-SET): A Fast and Ultrasensitive Electrometer," R.J. Schoelkopf, P. Wahlgren, A.A. Kozhevnikov, P. Delsing and D.E. Prober, Science 280 1238 (1998). [PDF]

"Observation of 'Photon-Assisted' Shot Noise in a Phase-Coherent Conductor," R.J. Schoelkopf, A.A. Kozhevnikov, D.E.Prober and M.J. Rooks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2437 (1998). [PDF]

"Frequency Dependence of Shot Noise in a Diffusive Mesoscopic Conductor," R.J. Schoelkopf, P.J. Burke, A.A. Kozhevnikov, D.E.Prober and M.J. Rooks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3370 (1997). [PDF]

"Energy-averaged weak localization in chaotic microcavities," Mark W. Keller, A. Mittal, J. W. Sleight, R. G. Wheeler, D. E. Prober, R. N. Sacks, and H. Shtrikmann, Phys. Rev. B 53, R1693 (1996). [PDF]

"Electron-phonon scattering rates in GaAs/AlGaAs 2DEG samples below 0.5 K," A. Mittal, R.G. Wheeler, M.W. Keller, D.E. Prober and R.N. Sacks, Surface Science 361/362, 537 (1996). [PDF]

"Electron temperature and thermal conductance of GaAs 2D electron gas samples below 0.5 K," A. Mittal, M.W. Keller, R.G. Wheeler, D.E. Prober and R.N. Sacks, Physica B 194-196, 167 (1994). [PDF]

"Magnetotransport in a chaotic scattering cavity with tunable electron density," M.W. Keller, O. Millo, A. Mittal, D.E. Prober and R.N. Sacks, Surface Science 305, 501 (1994). [PDF]

"Conductance fluctuations in ballistic microcavities," M.W. Keller, O. Millo, A. Mittal, D.E. Prober and R.N. Sacks, Physica B 194-196, 1029 (1994). [PDF]

"Weak localization and conductance fluctuations in complex mesoscopic geometries," V. Chandrasekhar, P. Santhanam, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B 44, 11203 (1991). [PDF]

"Sensitivity of conductance fluctuations to the addition of single elastic scatterers in mesoscopic GaAs/Al_xGa_1-xAs heterostructures," S. J. Klepper, O. Millo, M. W. Keller, D. E. Prober, and R. N. Sacks, Phys. Rev. B 44, 8380 (1991). [PDF]

"Reduction of the Mesoscopic Conductance Fluctuation Amplitude in GaAs/AlGaAs Heterojunctions due to Spin-Orbit Scattering," O. Millo, S.J. Kleppner, M.W. Keller, D.E. Prober, S. Xiong and A.D. Stone, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 1494 (1990). [PDF]

"Effect of spin-orbit and spin-flip scattering on conductance fluctuations," V. Chandrasekhar, P. Santhanam, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B 42, 6823 (1990). [PDF]

"Effect of measurement geometry on weak localization in short wires," V. Chandrasekhar, D. E. Prober, and P. Santhanam, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2253 (1988). [PDF]

"Localization, superconducting fluctuations, and superconductivity in thin films and narrow wires of aluminum," P. Santhanam, S. Wind, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B 35, 3188 (1987). [PDF]

"One-dimensional electron-electron scattering with small energy transfers," S. Wind, M. J. Rooks, V. Chandrasekhar, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 633 (1986). [PDF]

"Quantum Transport in Microstructures," D. E. Prober, Microelectronic Engineering 5, 203 (1986). [PDF]

"Observation of Aharonov-Bohm electron interference effects with periods h/e and h/2e in individual micron-size, normal-metal rings," V. Chandrasekhar, M.J. Rooks, S. Wind and D.E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1610 (1985). [PDF]

"One-dimensional electron localization and superconducting fluctuations in narrow aluminum wires," P. Santhanam, S. Wind, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1179 (1984). [PDF]

"Inelastic electron scattering mechanisms in clean aluminum films," P. Santhanam and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B 29, 3733 (1984). [PDF]

"Localization and electron-electron interaction effects in submicron-width inversion layers," R. G. Wheeler, K. K. Choi, A. Goel, R. Wisnieff, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 1674 (1982). [PDF]

"Static and dynamic properties of short, narrow, variable-thickness microbridges," M.D. Feuer and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Mag. 17, 81 (1981). [PDF]

"Properties of high-resistance superconducting microbridges based on lead alloy films," M.D. Feuer and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Mag. 15, 578 (1979). [PDF]

"Experimental study of Anderson localization in thin wires," N. Giordano, W. Gilson, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 725 (1979). [PDF]

Instrumentation

"Impedance-matched low-pass stripline filters," D.F. Santavicca and D.E. Prober, Meas. Sci. Technol. 19, 087001 (2008). [PDF]

"Optical antenna: Towards a unity efficiency near-field optical probe," R.D. Grober, R.J. Schoelkopf, and D.E. Prober, Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 1354 (1997). [PDF]

"Radio-Frequency Susceptibility Apparatus for Measuring Small Superconducting Samples," B.J. Dalrymple and D.E. Prober, Rev. Sci. Insrum. 55, 958 (1984). [PDF]

"Electronic Analogs of Double-Junction and Single-Junction SQUIDs," R.W. Henry and D.E. Prober, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 52, 902 (1981). [PDF]

"Electrical performance of a liquid helium-cooled transformer," D.E. Prober, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 45, 849 (1974). [PDF]

Thin Film Device Fabrication

"Ion-beam deposition of NbN_xC_y thin films for microelectronic applications," L.-J. Lin and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Mag. 23, 839 (1987). [PDF]

"Nucleation of body-centered-cubic tantalum films with a thin niobium underlayer," D.W. Face and D.E. Prober, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 5, 3408 (1987). [PDF]

"Superconducting NbN_xC_y thin films fabricated with a dual ion-beam sputtering method," L.-J. Lin and D. E. Prober, Appl. Phys. Lett. 49, 416 (1986). [PDF]

"Vapor transport crystal growth of the transition metal dichalcogenide compounds Nb_1-xTa_xSe₂," B. J. Dalrymple, S. Mroczkowski and D. E. Prober, J. Cryst. Growth 74, 575 (1986). [PDF]

"New fabrication technique and electronic tunneling studies of NbN," L.-J. Lin, E.K. Track, G.-J. Cui and D.E. Prober, Physica B+C, 135(1-3), 220 (1985). [PDF]

"Ion-deposited films for refractory-metal tunnel junctions," S.T. Ruggiero, D.W. Face and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Mag. 19, 960 (1983). [PDF]

"Ion-beam deposition of Nb and Ta refractory superconducting films," D.W. Face, S.T. Ruggiero and D.E. Prober, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 1, 326 (1983). [PDF]

"High resolution fabrication of Josephson microbridges," D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 28, 1368 (1981). [PDF]

"Projection Photolithography-Liftoff Techniques for Production of 0.2-um Metal Patterns," M.D. Feuer and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 28, 1375 (1981). [PDF]

"Fabrication of 300-Angstrom metal lines with substrate-step techniques," D. E. Prober, M. D. Feuer, and N. Giordano, Appl. Phys. Lett. 37, 94 (1980). [PDF]

"Step-edge fabrication of ultrasmall Josephson microbridges," M. D. Feuer and D. E. Prober, Appl. Phys. Lett. 36, 226 (1980). [PDF]

Magnetic Properties of Superconducting Materials

"Nature of vortex lattice disordering at the onset of the peak effect," X. S. Ling, J. E. Berger, and D. E. Prober, Phys. Rev. B 57, R3249 (1998). [PDF]

"Pinning and vortex lattice structure in NbTi alloy multilayers," J.D. McCambridge, N.D. Rizzo, S.T. Hess, J.Q. Wang, X.S. Ling and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 7, 1134 (1997). [PDF]

"Flux pinning in multifilamentary superconducting wires with ferromagnetic artificial pinning centers," J.-Q. Wang, N.D. Rizzo, D.E. Prober, L.R. Motowidlo and B.A. Zeitlin, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 7, 1130 (1997). [PDF]

"Ferromagnetic Artifical Pinning Centers in Superconducting Nb_0.36Ti_0.64 Wires," N.D. Rizzo, J.Q. Wang, D.E. Prober, L.R. Motowidlo and B.A. Zeitlin, Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 2285 (1996). [PDF]

"Fluctuation Effects on a Strongly Pinned Vortex Lattice in a Thin Type-II Superconducting Wire," X.S. Ling, J.D. McCambridge, N.D. Rizzo, J.W. Sleight, D.E. Prober, L.R. Motowidlo and B.A. Zeitlin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 805 (1995). [PDF]

"Flux pinning in NbTi/Nb multilayers," J.D. McCambridge, N.D. Rizzo, X.S. Ling, J.Q. Wang, D.E. Prober, L.R. Motowidlo and B.A. Zeitlin, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 5, 1697 (1995). [PDF]

"Flux dynamics in submicron superconducting NbTi wires," X.S. Ling, J.D. McCambridge, D.E. Prober, L.R. Motowidlo, B.A. Zeitlin and M.S. Walker, Physica B 194-196, 1867 (1994). [PDF]

"Experimental results on Nb 25 wt.% Ta 45 wt.% Ti superconducting wire," H. Liu, E. Gregory, N.D. Rizzo, J.D. McCambridge, X.S. Ling and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 3, 1350 (1993). [PDF]

"Multifilamentary NbTi with artificial pinning centers: the effect of alloy, pin material, and geometry on the superconducting properties," L.R. Motowidlo, B.A. Zeitlin, M.S. Walker, P. Haldar, J.D. McCambridge, N.D. Rizzo, X.S. Ling and D.E. Prober, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 3, 1366 (1993). [PDF]

"Upper Critical Fields of the Superconducting Layered Compounds Nb_1-xTa_xSe₂," B.J. Dalrymple and D.E. Prober, J. Low Temp. Phys. 56, 545 (1984). [PDF]

"Upper critical fields and reduced dimensionality of the superconducting layered compounds," D. E. Prober, R. E. Schwall, and M. R. Beasley, Phys. Rev. B 21, 2717 (1980). [PDF]