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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1974 - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society For his experimental investigations of the electromagnetic properties of superconductors
  • 1958 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Michael Tinkham was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States during their career. Their research contributed primarily to the field of condensed matter physics, with a particular focus on the electromagnetic properties of superconductors.

Throughout their career, Tinkham received recognition for contributions to the field, including the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize awarded by the American Physical Society in 1974 for experimental investigations into the electromagnetic properties of superconductors. Earlier, in 1958, they were named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

While details on specific research papers, frequent co-authors, and publication venues are not available, it is evident from the awards and affiliation that their work centered on experimental condensed matter physics, an area concerned with the physical properties of solid materials.

Due to the absence of data on specific papers, topics, or book publications, no additional listings of research outputs or scholarly contributions can be provided. Nevertheless, the documented accolades indicate a research career engaged with core experimental aspects of superconductivity.

Best Publications

  • Introduction To Superconductivity

    Michael Tinkham

  • Transition from metallic to tunneling regimes in superconducting microconstrictions: Excess current, charge imbalance, and supercurrent conversion

    G. E. Blonder;M. Tinkham;T. M. Klapwijk

  • Group theory and quantum mechanics

    Michael Tinkham

  • Direct electronic measurement of the spin Hall effect

    Sergio O. Valenzuela;Sergio O. Valenzuela;M. Tinkham

  • Fabry - Perot interference in a nanotube electron waveguide

    Wenjie Liang;Marc Bockrath;Dolores Bozovic;Jason H. Hafner

  • Resistive transition of high-temperature superconductors.

    M. Tinkham

  • Quantum suppression of superconductivity in ultrathin nanowires

    A. Bezryadin;C. N. Lau;M. Tinkham

  • Spectroscopic measurements of discrete electronic states in single metal particles.

    DC Ralph;CT Black;M Tinkham

  • Self‐heating hotspots in superconducting thin‐film microbridges

    W. J. Skocpol;M. R. Beasley;M. Tinkham

  • Subharmonic energy-gap structure in superconducting constrictions

    M. Octavio;M. Tinkham;G. E. Blonder;T. M. Klapwijk

  • Phase-slip centers and nonequilibrium processes in superconducting tin microbridges

    W. J. Skocpol;M. R. Beasley;M. Tinkham

  • Resonant electron scattering by defects in single-walled carbon nanotubes.

    Marc Bockrath;Wenjie Liang;Dolores Bozovic;Jason H. Hafner

  • Quantum Phase Slips in Superconducting Nanowires

    C. N. Lau;N. Markovic;M. Bockrath;Alexey Bezryadin

  • Spectroscopy of the Superconducting Gap in Individual Nanometer-Scale Aluminum Particles

    C. T. Black;D. C. Ralph;M. Tinkham

  • Theoretical interpretation of resistive transition data from arrays of superconducting weak links

    C. J. Lobb;David W. Abraham;M. Tinkham

  • Gate-Voltage Studies of Discrete Electronic States in Aluminum Nanoparticles

    D. C. Ralph;C. T. Black;M. Tinkham

  • Explanation of subharmonic energy gap structure in superconducting contacts

    T.M. Klapwijk;G.E. Blonder;M. Tinkham

  • Variation of the Coulomb staircase in a two-junction system by fractional electron charge.

    AE Hanna;M Tinkham

  • Experimental evidence for parity-based 2e periodicity in a superconducting single-electron tunneling transistor.

    M. T. Tuominen;J. M. Hergenrother;T. S. Tighe;M. Tinkham

  • Metallic to tunneling transition in Cu-Nb point contacts

    G. E. Blonder;M. Tinkham

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Ralph
Daniel C. Ralph Cornell University
Stephen B. Cronin
Stephen B. Cronin University of Southern California
Bennett B. Goldberg
Bennett B. Goldberg Northwestern University
Charles T. Black
Charles T. Black Brookhaven National Laboratory
Mark T. Tuominen
Mark T. Tuominen University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chun Ning Lau
Chun Ning Lau The Ohio State University
Marc Bockrath
Marc Bockrath The Ohio State University
M. R. Beasley
M. R. Beasley Stanford University
Jason H. Hafner
Jason H. Hafner Rice University

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