Transport properties governed by surface barriers in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6665, 1998, Pages 373-376

  Fuchs, Dan T ^a   Zeldov, Eli ^a   Rappaport, Michael ^a   Tamegai, Tsuyoshi ^b   Ooi, Shuuichi ^b   Shtrikman, Hadas ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032556868     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34879     Document Type: Article

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