Suppression of the superconducting transition of R FeAsO1-x Fx (R=Tb, Dy, and Ho)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Rodgers, Jennifer A ^a   Penny, George B S ^a   Marcinkova, Andrea ^a   Bos, Jan Willem G ^a   Sokolov, Dmitry A ^a   Kusmartseva, Anna ^a   Huxley, Andrew D ^a   Attfield, J Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 70249132144     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.052508     Document Type: Article

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