Suppression of tunneling two-level systems in ultrastable glasses of indomethacin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 11275-11280

  Pérez Castañeda, Tomás ^c   Rodríguez Tinoco, Cristian ^b   Rodríguez Viejo, Javier ^b   Ramos, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c MATGAS Research Center ^*

Author keywords

Glass transition; Glassy anomalies; Low temperature properties of glasses; Organic glasses

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; FILM; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; HEATING; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MATERIAL STATE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES; THERMODYNAMICS; TUNNELING TWO LEVEL SYSTEM; ULTRASTABLE GLASS;

EID: 84905656802     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405545111     Document Type: Article

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