Energy Gap in Superconducting Fullerides: Optical and Tunneling Studies

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 4082-4085

  Koller, Daniel ^a   Martin, Michael C ^a   Mihály, László ^a   Mihály, György ^b   Oszlányi, Gábor ^b   Baumgartner, Gabriel ^b   Forró, László ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ENERGY GAP; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHONONS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; RUBIDIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

ELECTRON PHONON COUPLING; ELIASHBERG THEORY; FILM THICKNESS; MEAN FREE PATH; SUPERCONDUCTING FULLERIDES;

FULLERENES;

EID: 0542434440     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4082     Document Type: Article

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