Upper critical field in nanostructured Nb: Competing effects of the reduction in density of states and the mean free path

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

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

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

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EID: 33845415292     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.224502     Document Type: Article

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