Interface-enhanced high-temperature superconductivity in single-unit-cell FeTe1-x Sex films on SrTiO3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 22, 2015, Pages

  Li, Fangsen ^a   Ding, Hao ^a   Tang, Chenjia ^a   Peng, Junping ^b   Zhang, Qinghua ^b   Zhang, Wenhao ^a   Zhou, Guanyu ^a   Zhang, Ding ^a   Song, Can Li ^a,c   He, Ke ^a,c   Ji, Shuaihua ^a,c   Chen, Xi ^a,c   Gu, Lin ^b,c   Wang, Lili ^a,c   Ma, Xu Cun ^a,b,c   Xue, Qi Kun ^a,c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

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EID: 84934783116     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.220503     Document Type: Article

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