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Tunneling Spectroscopy of Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors

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Tunneling Spectroscopy: A review of tunneling spectroscopy is presented for conventional- and unconventional superconductors. This includes conventional phonon mediated supercondivity, superconductivity in the cuprates, heavy fermion superconductors and organic superconductors.

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Zasadzinski, J. (2008). Tunneling Spectroscopy of Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors. In: Bennemann, K.H., Ketterson, J.B. (eds) Superconductivity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73253-2_15

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