Bipolar supercurrent in graphene

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7131, 2007, Pages 56-59

  Heersche, Hubert B ^a   Jarillo Herrero, Pablo ^a   Oostinga, Jeroen B ^a   Vandersypen, Lieven M K ^a   Morpurgo, Alberto F ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 33847678513     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05555     Document Type: Article

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