Interfacial mode coupling as the origin of the enhancement of Tc in FeSe films on SrTiO3

Nature

Volumn 515, Issue 7526, 2014, Pages 245-248

  Lee, J J ^a,b   Schmitt, F T ^a   Moore, R G ^a   Johnston, S ^c,d   Cui, Y T ^a   Li, W ^a   Yi, M ^a,b   Liu, Z K ^a,b   Hashimoto, M ^e   Zhang, Y ^a,f   Lu, D H ^e   Devereaux, T P ^a   Lee, D H ^f,g   Shen, Z X ^a,b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON SELENIDE; OXYGEN; SELENIDE; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM TITANATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; OXIDE; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON; FILM; MAGNETISM; NEUTRON SCATTERING; OPTICS; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84921029409     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13894     Document Type: Article

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