Highly crystalline 2D superconductors

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Saito, Yu ^a   Nojima, Tsutomu ^b   Iwasa, Yoshihiro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

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EID: 85015729849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20588437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.94     Document Type: Review

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