Spatial complexity due to bulk electronic nematicity in a superconducting underdoped cuprate

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Phillabaum, B ^a   Carlson, E W ^a   Dahmen, K A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTOR; ELECTRONIC NEMATICITY; ELECTRONICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84863305554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1920     Document Type: Article

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