Suppression of superconductivity by twin boundaries in FeSe

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Song, Can Li ^a,b,c   Wang, Yi Lin ^a   Jiang, Ye Ping ^a,b   Wang, Lili ^a   He, Ke ^a   Chen, Xi ^b   Hoffman, Jennifer E ^c   Ma, Xu Cun ^a   Xue, Qi Kun ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FE SITES; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; PNICTIDES; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS; TWIN BOUNDARIES;

DIMERS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84867028081     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.137004     Document Type: Article

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