Competing effects of surface phonon softening and quantum size effects on the superconducting properties of nanostructured Pb

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Bose, Sangita ^a,c   Galande, Charudatta ^a   Chockalingam, S P ^a   Banerjee, Rajarshi ^b   Raychaudhuri, Pratap ^a   Ayyub, Pushan ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETING EFFECTS; ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING STRENGTHS; LARGE PARTICLES; NANO-STRUCTURED; PLANAR TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS; SUPERCONDUCTING ENERGY GAPS; SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES; SURFACE PHONONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES; UPPER CRITICAL FIELDS;

LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHONONS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 65549164893     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/20/205702     Document Type: Article

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