Giant frictional dissipation peaks and charge-density-wave slips at the NbSe 2 surface

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 173-177

  Langer, Markus ^a   Kisiel, Marcin ^a   Pawlak, Rémy ^a   Pellegrini, Franco ^b,c   Santoro, Giuseppe E ^b,c,d   Buzio, Renato ^e   Gerbi, Andrea ^e   Balakrishnan, Geetha ^f   Baratoff, Alexis ^a   Tosatti, Erio ^b,c,d   Meyer, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^d ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^e CNR SPIN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84892970971     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3836     Document Type: Article

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