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Two-dimensional Superconductors with Atomic-scale Thicknesses

Superconductivity 2016-11-17 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Recent progress in two-dimensional superconductors with atomic-scale thicknesses is reviewed mainly from the experimental point of view. The superconducting systems treated here involve a variety of materials and forms: elemental-metal ultrathin films and atomic layers on semiconductor surfaces; interfaces and superlattices of heterostructures made of cuprates, perovskite oxides, and rare-earth metal heavy-fermion compounds; interfaces of electric-double-layer transistors; graphene and atomic sheets of transition-metal dichalcogenide; iron selenide and organic conductors on oxide and metal surfaces, respectively. Unique phenomena arising from the ultimate two-dimensionality of the system and the physics behind them are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06997,
  title  = {Two-dimensional Superconductors with Atomic-scale Thicknesses},
  author = {Takashi Uchihashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06997},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

79 pages, 23 figures, 1 table, topical review to be published in Supercond. Sci. Technol

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