Extending universal nodal excitations optimizes superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5935, 2009, Pages 1689-1693

  Pushp, Aakash ^a,b   Parker, Colin V ^a   Pasupathy, Abhay N ^a,e   Gomes, Kenjiro K ^a,f   Ono, Shimpei ^c   Wen, Jinsheng ^d   Xu, Zhijun ^d   Gu, Genda ^d   Yazdani, Ali ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; CALCIUM; COPPER; OXYGEN; STRONTIUM;

BISMUTH; CALCIUM CARBONATE; OPTIMIZATION; STRONTIUM; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SCINTISCANNING; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67650215690     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1174338     Document Type: Article

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