Lower critical field and SNS-Andreev spectroscopy of 122-arsenides: Evidence of nodeless superconducting gap

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Abdel Hafiez, M ^a,b,c   Pereira, P J ^d   Kuzmichev, S A ^e   Kuzmicheva, T E ^f   Pudalov, V M ^f,g   Harnagea, L ^h   Kordyuk, A A ⁱ   Silhanek, A V ^b   Moshchalkov, V V ^d   Shen, B ^j   Wen, Hai Hu ^k   Vasiliev, A N ^e,l   Chen, Xiao Jia ^a  

^a CENTER FOR HIGH PRESSURE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Fayoum University   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^h IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF METAL PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^j INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^k NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 84921793221     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.054524     Document Type: Article

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