Specific heat of Nb3Sn: The case for a second energy gap

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 1-8

  Guritanu, V ^a   Goldacker, W ^b   Bouquet, F ^a,d   Wang, Y ^a   Lortz, R ^a   Goll, G ^c   Junod, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; HEAT; MAGNETIC FIELD; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 12144279120     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.184526     Document Type: Article

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