Imaging the two gaps of the high-temperature superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 CuO 6+x

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 802-806

  Boyer, M C ^a   Wise, W D ^a   Chatterjee, Kamalesh ^a   Yi, Ming ^a   Kondo, Takeshi ^a,b,c   Takeuchi, T ^b   Ikuta, H ^b   Hudson, E W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STATES; ENERGY GAP; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

COMPETING PHASE; PRECURSOR STATE; PSEUDO-GAP; PSEUDOGAP STATE; SCANNING TUNNELLING SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TWO GAPS;

SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 35748948360     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys725     Document Type: Article

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