TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-heating in normal metals and superconductors
AU - Gurevich, A. Vl
AU - Mints, R. G.
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - This review is devoted to the physics of current-carrying superconductors and normal metals having two or more stable states sustained by Joule self-heating. The creation, propagation, and localization of electrothermal domains and switching waves leading to the transition from one stable state to another in uniform and nonuniform samples are treated in detail. The connection between thermal bistability and hysteresis, dropping and stepped current-voltage characteristics, self-induced oscillations of current and voltage, selfreplication of electrothermal domains, and the formation of periodic and stochastic resistive structures are considered.
AB - This review is devoted to the physics of current-carrying superconductors and normal metals having two or more stable states sustained by Joule self-heating. The creation, propagation, and localization of electrothermal domains and switching waves leading to the transition from one stable state to another in uniform and nonuniform samples are treated in detail. The connection between thermal bistability and hysteresis, dropping and stepped current-voltage characteristics, self-induced oscillations of current and voltage, selfreplication of electrothermal domains, and the formation of periodic and stochastic resistive structures are considered.
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U2 - 10.1103/RevModPhys.59.941
DO - 10.1103/RevModPhys.59.941
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AN - SCOPUS:0000987432
SN - 0034-6861
VL - 59
SP - 941
EP - 999
JO - Reviews of Modern Physics
JF - Reviews of Modern Physics
IS - 4
ER -