Michael Tinkham

Research has centered on superconductivity, magnetism, and mesoscopic systems. Early work provided first spectroscopic demonstration of the energy gap in superconductors, confirming BCS theory. Later work elucidated properties of superconducting Josephson junctions, resistive flux motion, fluctuation effects, nonequilibrium superconductivity, Andreev reflection, single-electron tunneling, and even-odd electron number effects in superconducting nanostructures. Research in magnetism focussed on observation and interpretation of far-infared resonances in antiferromagnets and ferrimagnetic garnets.