The sensitivity of urban canopy air temperature (
The interplay between charge transfer and electronic disorder in transition-metal dichalcogenide multilayers gives rise to superconductive coupling driven by proximity enhancement, tunneling and superconducting fluctuations, of a yet unwieldy variety. Artificial spacer layers introduced with atomic precision change the density of states by charge transfer. Here, we tune the superconductive coupling between
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10402899
- Publisher / Repository:
- IOP Publishing
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 21
- ISSN:
- 0953-8984
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- Article No. 215701
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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