Pseudogap in a thin film of a conventional superconductor

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Sacépé, Benjamin ^a,e   Chapelier, Claude ^a   Baturina, Tatyana I ^b   Vinokur, Valerii M ^c   Baklanov, Mikhail R ^d   Sanquer, Marc ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d IMEC   (Belgium)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM NITRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON; FILM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM YIELD; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 79251505874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1140     Document Type: Article

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