Advantageous grain boundaries in iron pnictide superconductors

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Katase, Takayoshi ^a   Ishimaru, Yoshihiro ^b   Tsukamoto, Akira ^b   Hiramatsu, Hidenori ^a   Kamiya, Toshio ^a   Tanabe, Keiichi ^b   Hosono, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BARIUM; COBALT; IRON; IRON PNICTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MICROTECHNOLOGY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79961191542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1419     Document Type: Article

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