Direct observation of the superconducting energy gap developing in the conductivity spectra of niobium

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 14416-14421

  Pronin, A ^a   Dressel, M ^a   Pimenov, A ^a   Loidl, A ^a   Roshchin, I ^b   Greene, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 0000518956     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.14416     Document Type: Article

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