Large-area high-quality 2D ultrathin Mo2C superconducting crystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1135-1141

  Xu, Chuan ^a   Wang, Libin ^b   Liu, Zhibo ^a   Chen, Long ^a   Guo, Jingkun ^b   Kang, Ning ^b   Ma, Xiu Liang ^a   Cheng, Hui Ming ^a   Ren, Wencai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIDES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MOLYBDENUM; TRANSITION METALS;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; LATERAL DIMENSION; MAGNETIC FIELD ORIENTATIONS; STRONG ANISOTROPY; SUPERCONDUCTING CRYSTAL; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS; TRANSITION METAL CARBIDE;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84945448371     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4374     Document Type: Article

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