Surface superconductivity in thin cylindrical bi nanowire

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1487-1492

  Tian, Mingliang ^a,b,c   Wang, Jian ^a,d   Ning, Wei ^b   Mallouk, Thomas E ^a   Chan, Moses H W ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bi nanowires; magnetoresistance; quantum oscillations; surface superconductivity

Indexed keywords

MAGNETORESISTANCE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; WIRE;

BI NANOWIRES; CRITICAL MAGNETIC FIELD; PARALLEL ORIENTATION; QUANTUM OSCILLATIONS; QUASIPERIODIC OSCILLATIONS; SMALL DIAMETER WIRES; SURFACE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84924545169     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl503398d     Document Type: Article

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