Direct evidence for negative grain boundary potential in ca-doped and undoped YBa2Cu3O7-x

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Schofield, Marvin A ^a   Beleggia, Marco ^a   Zhu, Yimei ^a   Guth, Karsten ^b   Jooss, Christian ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ELECTRON HOLOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GROUND STATE; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTATIC SCREENING; INTERFACIAL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; NANOPROBE ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

EID: 18344412518     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.195502     Document Type: Article

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