Quasi-hexagonal vortex-pinning lattice using anodized aluminum oxide nanotemplates

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Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 2413-2416

  Hallet, Xavier ^a   Mátéfi Tempfli, Mária ^a   Michotte, Sébastien ^a   Piraux, Luc ^a   Vanacken, Johan ^b   Moshchalkov, Victor V ^b   Mátéfi Tempfli, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alumina; Hexagonal arrangement; Nanostructures; Superconductivity; Vortex pinning

Indexed keywords

ANODIZED ALUMINUM OXIDE; BARRIER LAYERS; HEXAGONAL ARRANGEMENT; LATTICE ARRAYS; MATCHING EFFECTS; NANO SCALE; NANO-POROUS ALUMINA MEMBRANES; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOTEMPLATES; SUPERCONDUCTING NB FILM; TRIANGULAR LATTICE; VORTEX PINNING;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NIOBIUM; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ALUMINA;

ALUMINUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ELECTRODES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70449450136     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200900400     Document Type: Article

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