Superconducting graphene sheets in CaC6 enabled by phonon-mediated interband interactions

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yang, S L ^a,b   Sobota, J A ^a,b   Howard, C A ^c   Pickard, C J ^c   Hashimoto, M ^d   Lu, D H ^d   Mo, S K ^e   Kirchmann, P S ^a   Shen, Z X ^a,b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE;

CALCIUM; CARBON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; FILM; GRAPHITE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISPERSION; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHONON; PHOTON; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTION; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; PROCEDURES;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; GRAPHITE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHONONS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84898873132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4493     Document Type: Article

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