Superconductivity of nanometer-size Pb islands studied by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Nishio, Takahiro ^a   Ono, Masanori ^a   Eguchi, Toyoaki ^a   Sakata, Hideaki ^b   Hasegawa, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

PB ISLAND STRUCTURES; SUPERCONDUCTING FLUCTUATION; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS;

LEAD;

EID: 33645156712     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2184758     Document Type: Article

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