Atomic-scale investigations of intrinsic chemical inhomogeneity in superconducting Fe1+ySe1-xTex epitaxial films

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7170-7177

  Zhu, Yuanyuan ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Ciston, Jim ^c   Wang, Haiyan ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT; CHEMICAL INHOMOGENEITIES; COHERENCE LENGTHS; IRON CHALCOGENIDES; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES; VACUUM ENVIRONMENT;

EPITAXIAL FILMS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FILM GROWTH; IRON; STOICHIOMETRY; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84876239674     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp400916m     Document Type: Article

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