Fully gapped superconductivity in a nanometre-size YBa2Cu 3O7-δ island enhanced by a magnetic field

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-30

  Gustafsson, D ^a   Golubev, D ^b   Fogelstrom M ^a   Claeson, T ^a   Kubatkin, S ^a   Bauch, T ^a   Lombardi, F ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

COULOMB BLOCKADE EFFECTS; HIGH CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVE MEASUREMENT; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; THEORETICAL MODELING; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; HIGH CRITICAL TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANODEVICE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84871754516     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.214     Document Type: Article

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