Experimental evidence for a collective insulating state in two-dimensional superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Sambandamurthy, G ^a   Engel, L W ^b   Johansson, A ^a   Peled, E ^a   Shahar, D ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE INSULATING STATE; HALL-BAR PATTERNS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS; VOLTAGE EXCITATIONS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFRACTION; LITHOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; QUANTUM THEORY; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 18144422121     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.017003     Document Type: Article

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