Point-contact spectroscopic studies on normal and superconducting AFe 2As2-type iron pnictide single crystals

Superconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Lu, Xin ^a   Park, W K ^a   Yuan, H Q ^b   Chen, G F ^c   Luo, G L ^c   Wang, N L ^c   Sefat, A S ^d   McGuire, M A ^d   Jin, R ^d   Sales, B C ^d   Mandrus, D ^d   Gillett, J ^e   Sebastian, Suchitra E ^e   Greene, L H ^a  

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

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDREEV REFLECTION; DOUBLE PEAK; GAP SIZE; GAP STRUCTURES; MESOSCOPICS; PARENT COMPOUNDS; PNICTIDES; SLOPING BACKGROUND; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES; SUPERCONDUCTING ORDERS; ZERO BIAS CONDUCTANCE PEAKS;

BARIUM; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; POINT CONTACTS; REFLECTION; SODIUM; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77951677591     PISSN: 09532048     EISSN: 13616668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/23/5/054009     Document Type: Article

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