A-b Plane anisotropy of the superconducting gap in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8: Scanning tunneling microscope spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 616-619

  Suzuki, K ^a   Ichimura, K ^a   Nomura, K ^a   Takekawa, S ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BISMUTH STRONTIUM CALCIUM COPPER OXIDE; SUPERCONDUCTING GAP;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0032621144     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.616     Document Type: Article

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