Effect of granularity on the insulator-superconductor transition in ultrathin Bi films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Sambandamurthy, G ^a   Das Gupta, K ^a   Chandrasekhar, N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; DEVICE; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; FILM; MODEL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THICKNESS;

EID: 0034910464     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.014506     Document Type: Article

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