Measurement of magnetic penetration depth and superconducting energy gap in very thin epitaxial NbN films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Kamlapure, Anand ^a   Mondal, Mintu ^a   Chand, Madhavi ^a   Mishra, Archana ^a,b   Jesudasan, John ^a   Bagwe, Vivas ^a   Benfatto, L ^c   Tripathi, Vikram ^a   Raychaudhuri, Pratap ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARDEEN-COOPER-SCHRIEFFER THEORY; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; KOSTERLITZ-THOULESS; MAGNETIC PENETRATION DEPTH; SUPERCONDUCTING BOLOMETERS; SUPERCONDUCTING ENERGY GAP; SUPERFLUID DENSITY; TIME RESPONSE; ULTRA-THIN;

ENERGY GAP; EPITAXIAL FILMS; SOLIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 77249144921     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3314308     Document Type: Article

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