Ultrahigh-resolution photoemission spectroscopy of Ni borocarbides: direct observation of the superconducting gap and a change in gap anisotropy by impurity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 4952-4955

  Yokoya, T ^a   Kiss, T ^a   Watanabe, T ^a   Shin, S ^a,b   Nohara, M ^a   Takagi, H ^a   Oguchi, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PHOTOEMISSION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECIFIC HEAT OF SOLIDS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GAP ANISOTROPY; SUPERCONDUCTING GAP; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

BORON CARBIDE;

EID: 0034429971     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4952     Document Type: Article

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