Superconducting properties and Hall effect of epitaxial NbN thin films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 21, 2008, Pages

  Chockalingam, S P ^a   Chand, Madhavi ^a   Jesudasan, John ^a   Tripathi, Vikram ^a   Raychaudhuri, Pratap ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

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EID: 44949157200     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.214503     Document Type: Article

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