Evidence for surface Andreev bound states in cuprate superconductors from penetration depth measurements

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1074-1077

  Carrington, A ^a,b   Manzano, F ^a,b   Prozorov, R ^c   Giannetta, R W ^c   Kameda, N ^d   Tamegai, T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FERMI SURFACE; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FLOATING ZONE METHOD; GRAIN BOUNDARY JUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC PENETRATION DEPTH; MEISSNER CURRENTS; SURFACE ANDREEV BOUND STATES;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0035251602     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1074     Document Type: Article

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