Mapping the superconducting condensate surrounding a vortex in superconducting V3Si using a superconducting MgB2 tip in a scanning tunneling microscope

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Bergeal, N ^a   Noat, Y ^a   Cren, T ^a   Proslier, Th ^a   Dubost, V ^a   Debontridder, F ^a   Zimmers, A ^a   Roditchev, D ^a   Sacks, W ^b   Marcus, J ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

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EID: 54449085137     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.140507     Document Type: Article

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