"Giant" enhancement of the upper critical field and fluctuations above the bulk Tc in superconducting ultrathin lead nanowire arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4187-4193

  He, Mingquan ^a   Wong, Chi Ho ^a   Tse, Pok Lam ^a   Zheng, Yuan ^a   Zhang, Haijing ^a   Lam, Frank L Y ^b   Sheng, Ping ^a   Hu, Xijun ^b   Lortz, Rolf ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

electric transport; mesoporous silica matrixes; nanowires; superconductivity; thermodynamic properties

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC TRANSPORT; LEAD NANOWIRE ARRAYS; LOW-TEMPERATURE REGIME; MESOPOROUS SILICA; NANO-STRUCTURING; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; TYPE II SUPERCONDUCTORS; UPPER CRITICAL FIELDS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; LEAD; NANOWIRES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

LEAD; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; MAGNETISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEAD; MAGNETIC PHENOMENA; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84878338308     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400604v     Document Type: Article

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