Experimental evidence for s-wave pairing symmetry in superconducting CuxBi2Se3 single crystals using a scanning tunneling microscope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Levy, Niv ^a,b   Zhang, Tong ^a,b   Ha, Jeonghoon ^a,b,c   Sharifi, Fred ^a   Talin, A Alec ^a   Kuk, Young ^c   Stroscio, Joseph A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; BARDEEN-COOPER-SCHRIEFFER THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; POINT CONTACT SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SUPERCONDUCTING CONDENSATES; SUPERCONDUCTING ENERGY GAP; ZERO BIAS CONDUCTANCE PEAKS;

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SHEAR WAVES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TOPOLOGY;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84875041861     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.117001     Document Type: Article

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