Highly crystallized as-grown smooth and superconducting MgB2 films by molecular-beam epitaxy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 26, 2002, Pages 4982-4984

  Van Erven, A J M ^a,b   Kim, T H ^a   Muenzenberg, M ^a   Moodera, J S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FILM GROWTH; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SUBSTRATES; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

DEPOSITION RATES;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 0037164790     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1530732     Document Type: Article

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