Universal transport in two-dimensional granular superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 525091-525094

  Frydman, A ^a   Naaman, O ^b   Dynes, R C ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; SILVER; TIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FILM; PHYSICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036695676     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.052509     Document Type: Article

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