Controlled manipulation of individual vortices in a superconductor

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Straver, E W J ^a   Hoffman, J E ^a,b   Auslaender, O M ^a   Rugar, D ^c   Moler, Kathryn A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NIOBIUM; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THICK FILMS;

DEPINNING FORCES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGNETIC FORCES; SINGLE VORTICES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 55149119187     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3000963     Document Type: Article

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