Direct probe of interplay between local structure and superconductivity in FeTe0.55Se0.45

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2634-2641

  Lin, Wenzhi ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Sales, Brian C ^b   Jesse, Stephen ^a   Sefat, Athena S ^b   Kalinin, Sergei V ^a   Pan, Minghu ^a  

^a Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fe based superconductor; scanning tunneling microscopy; scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; FE-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS; LOCAL LATTICE DISTORTION; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; SUPERCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES;

CHALCOGENIDES; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84875641536     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400012q     Document Type: Article

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