Superconductivity Series in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides by Ionic Gating

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Shi, Wu ^a   Ye, Jianting ^a,b   Zhang, Yijin ^a   Suzuki, Ryuji ^a   Yoshida, Masaro ^a   Miyazaki, Jun ^a   Inoue, Naoko ^a   Saito, Yu ^a   Iwasa, Yoshihiro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

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EID: 84938633100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12534     Document Type: Article

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