Strong superconducting proximity effect in Pb-Bi 2 Te 3 hybrid structures

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Qu, Fanming ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Shen, Jie ^a   Ding, Yue ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Ji, Zhongqing ^a   Liu, Guangtong ^a   Fan, Jie ^a   Jing, Xiunian ^a   Yang, Changli ^a   Lu, Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84859779938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00339     Document Type: Article

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