At 4:55 PM 11/26/4, Jones Beene wrote: >--- Horace Heffner wrote: > >> The good news is that *gaps* between superconductors >can be used to generate radiation by imposing a >potential across the gap. Unfortunately, the gap must >be small enough that electrons can tunnel back and >forth... > >Thanks for that information. This is encouraging... >especially for generation of terahertz radiation, >which passes through just about anything (including >presumably the HTSC itself),
Well, 1 THz corresponds to about 0.3 mm wavelength, which is far thermal infrared. I expect some would be absorbed and some reflected, depending on the surface characteristics. I don't think even ordinary conductors are transparent to this frequency of radiation. It takes x-rays to penetrate a superconductor. Regards, Horace Heffner
