Superconducting Calcium-Intercalated Bilayer Graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 2761-2765

  Ichinokura, Satoru ^a   Sugawara, Katsuaki ^b   Takayama, Akari ^a   Takahashi, Takashi ^b   Hasegawa, Shuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon; electrical transport; graphene; graphite intercalation compound; semiconductor surface; superconductivity; ultrahigh vacuum

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GRAPHITE; INTERCALATION; INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SILICON CARBIDE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

4-POINT-PROBE METHOD; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; INTERCALATED GRAPHITE; NONZERO MAGNETIC FIELDS; ONSET TEMPERATURE; SEMI-CONDUCTOR SURFACES; ZERO-RESISTANCE STATE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84960157630     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07848     Document Type: Article

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