Reduction of the superconducting gap of ultrathin Pb islands grown on Si(111)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Brun, Christophe ^a   Hong, I Po ^a   Patthey, François ^a   Sklyadneva, I Yu ^b,c   Heid, R ^d   Echenique, P M ^b,e   Bohnen, K P ^d   Chulkov, E V ^b,e   Schneider, Wolf Dieter ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF STRENGTH PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; BULK VALUE; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING CONSTANT; EX SITU; IN-SITU; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENTS; PB FILM; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SCANNING PROBES; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SI (1 1 1); STRONG CONTRAST; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS; ULTRA-THIN;

LEAD ALLOYS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MONOLAYERS; PHONONS; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TECHNETIUM;

LEAD;

EID: 66049143818     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.207002     Document Type: Article

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