Magnetoresistance oscillations of ultrathin Pb bridges

Nano Research

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 671-677

  Wang, Jian ^a,b   Ma, Xucun ^a   Ji, Shuaihua ^a   Qi, Yun ^a   Fu, Yingshuang ^a   Jin, Aizi ^a   Lu, Li ^a   Gu, Changzhi ^a   Xie, X C ^a,c   Tian, Mingliang ^b   Jia, Jinfeng ^a,d   Xue, Qikun ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Focus ion beam; Magnetoresistance; Molecular beam epitaxy; Pb nanobridge; Scanning tunneling microscope; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350307876     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-009-9070-3     Document Type: Article

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