Mechanism of the size dependence of the superconducting transition of nanostructured Nb

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 14, 2005, Pages

  Bose, Sangita ^a   Raychaudhuri, Pratap ^a   Banerjee, Rajarshi ^b   Vasa, Parinda ^a   Ayyub, Pushan ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSON CRITERION; ELECTRONIC DENSITY; SIZE DEPENDENCY; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION;

ENERGY GAP; LEAD; METALLIC FILMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHONONS; SPONTANEOUS POTENTIAL LOGGING;

SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 28844443305     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.147003     Document Type: Article

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