Large enhancement of critical-current density due to vortex matching at the periodic facet structure in bicrystals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 10951-10958

  Cai, X ^a   Gurevich, A ^a   Tsu, I Fei ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000338547     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.10951     Document Type: Article

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