Enhanced superconductivity in atomically thin TaS 2

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Navarro Moratalla, Efrén ^a,f   Island, Joshua O ^b   Manãs Valero, Samuel ^a   Pinilla Cienfuegos, Elena ^a,g   Castellanos Gomez, Andres ^b,e   Quereda, Jorge ^c   Rubio Bollinger, Gabino ^c,d   Chirolli, Luca ^e   Silva Guillén, Jose Angel ^e   Agraït, Nicolás ^c,d,e   Steele, Gary A ^b   Guinea, Francisco ^e   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^b   Coronado, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INORGANIC COMPOUND; REDUCTION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TANTALUM; TEMPERATURE; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

CHEMICAL BINDING; MODEL; PHONON;

EID: 84961827878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11043     Document Type: Article

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