On the origin of critical temperature enhancement in atomically thin superconductors

2D Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Talantsev, E F ^a   Crump, W P ^a   Island, J O ^b,g   Xing, Ying ^c,d,e   Sun, Yi ^c,d   Wang, Jian ^c,d   Tallon, J L ^a,f  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d The Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter   (China)

^e CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^f MACDIARMID INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomically thin superconductors; Coherence length; Critical currents; FeSe; London penetration depth; Superconducting energy gap; Transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; ENERGY GAP; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; IRON COMPOUNDS; SPECIFIC HEAT OF SOLIDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

COHERENCE LENGTHS; FESE; LONDON PENETRATION DEPTH; SUPERCONDUCTING ENERGY GAP; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85021379595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aa6917     Document Type: Article

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