Josephson-coupled superconducting regions embedded at the interfaces of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ballestar, A ^a   Barzola Quiquia, J ^a   Scheike, T ^a   Esquinazi, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE PLANE; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE; INPUT CURRENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL INTERFACES; ZERO RESISTANCE;

GRAPHENE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GRAPHITE;

EID: 84874526977     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/2/023024     Document Type: Article

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