Insights from the study of high-temperature interface superconductivity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1977, 2012, Pages 4890-4903

  Pereiro, J ^a,b   Bollinger, A T ^b   Logvenov, G ^b,c   Gozar, A ^b   Panagopoulos, C ^a   Bozzovic I ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cuprates; High temperature superconductivity; Interface superconductivity; Molecular beam epitaxy

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

CATION DIFFUSION; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; CUPRATES; DIFFICULT MATERIAL; ELECTRON DEPLETION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SINGLE COPPER; SURFACE AND INTERFACES;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84866872820     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0219     Document Type: Review

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