Analysis of local chemical and structural inhomogeneities in Fe ySe1-xTex single crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Speller, S C ^a   Britton, T B ^a   Hughes, G ^a   Lozano Perez, S ^a   Boothroyd, A T ^a   Pomjakushina, E ^b   Conder, K ^b   Grovenor, C R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; CO-EXISTENCE; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOMOGENEOUS CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC ORDERS; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL INHOMOGENEITIES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND MAGNETISM;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 81155145962     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3659302     Document Type: Article

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