Scanning tunnelling microscopy imaging of symmetry-breaking structural distortion in the bismuth-based cuprate superconductors

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 585-589

  Zeljkovic, Ilija ^a   Main, Elizabeth J ^a   Williams, Tess L ^a   Boyer, M C ^b   Chatterjee, Kamalesh ^b   Wise, W D ^b   Yin, Yi ^a   Zech, Martin ^a   Pivonka, Adam ^a   Kondo, Takeshi ^b,c   Takeuchi, T ^c   Ikuta, Hiroshi ^c   Wen, Jinsheng ^d   Xu, Zhijun ^d   Gu, G D ^d   Hudson, E W ^a,b,e   Hoffman, Jennifer E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; ELECTRONIC STATES; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

DENSITY OF STATE; ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS; INVERSION SYMMETRY; LATTICE STRUCTURES; SHORT-RANGE CORRELATIONS; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; STRUCTURAL SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

EID: 84862662700     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3315     Document Type: Article

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