Imaging nanoscale Fermi-surface variations in an inhomogeneous superconductor

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-216

  Wise, W D ^a   Chatterjee, Kamalesh ^a   Boyer, M C ^a   Kondo, Takeshi ^a,b,d   Takeuchi, T ^b   Ikuta, H ^b   Xu, Zhijun ^c   Wen, Jinsheng ^c   Gu, G D ^c   Wang, Yayu ^a,e   Hudson, E W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

INHOMOGENEITIES; INHOMOGENEOUS SUPERCONDUCTORS; LOCAL DOPING; NEW APPROACHES; PARTICLE-WAVE DUALITY; SURFACE CHANGES; SURFACE VARIATIONS; WATER HEIGHTS;

FERMI SURFACE;

EID: 61849125859     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1197     Document Type: Article

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