Signatures of multigap superconductivity in tunneling spectroscopy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Noat, Y ^a   Cren, T ^a   Debontridder, F ^a   Roditchev, D ^a   Sacks, W ^b   Toulemonde, P ^c,d   San Miguel, A ^c,d  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^d University of Lyon   (France)

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EID: 77956513470     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.014531     Document Type: Article

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