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Experiments on potential differences in the low-temperature vortex solid phase of monocrystalline platelets of superconducting Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8) (BSCCO) subjected to currents driven either through an "ab" surface or from one such…
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We report low temperature current-voltage measurements on n-type InN films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The zero-resistance state with a large critical current around 1 mA has been observed at 0.3 K. Under in-plane field configuration,…
We measured the rectification of an ac voltage in a structure of superconducting circularly-asymmetric aluminum rings in series, permeated with a magnetic flux and biased with a low-frequency alternating current (without a dc component).…
On the basis of both the inhomogeneity of a superconductor, BSCCO-2212, and the effect of measurement, we reveal that an anomalously large gap anisotropy known as evidence of dx2-y2-wave symmetry [Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (1993) 1553] is not…
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