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An·dre·ev reflection | \ än-ˈdrā-əf- 
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\Definition of Andreev reflection
physics
: the reflection of electrons that occurs at a border between a semiconductor and a superconductor
Rather what may mediate the superconductivity are multiple Andreev reflections, a phenomenon the existence of which Aleksander F. Andreev of the Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow proposed in 1964.— Philip Yam, Scientific American, February 1994
— called also Andreev scattering
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