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Observation of Superconductivity in Epitaxially Grown Atomic Layers

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This study aims to develop a kind of interdisciplinary field. The discoveries of “atomic thick superconductors”, which are ultimately thin two-dimensional superconductors with well-defined atomic arrangements, are owing to technical development of the surface science: integration of the four-terminal measurement into the low-temperature and ultrahigh vacuum environment. Their properties can be understood by knowledge accumulated through the long research of superconductivity in bulk and thin film. In this chapter, first, by looking back of the history of the surface science and superconductivity, the substance of the present research field is definitised. Next, remarkable examples of the latest atomic thick superconductors are listed, which motivated this study as described at the end of this chapter.

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Ichinokura, S. (2018). Introduction. In: Observation of Superconductivity in Epitaxially Grown Atomic Layers. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6853-9_1

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