Pinning forces of dirty indium films with low values of the Ginzburg—Landau parameter have been studied as functions of temperature and magnetic field. It has been found that the pinning forces obey a scaling law with respect to temperature.
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Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Industrial University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Raychaudhuri, A.K., Takayama, T. & Rinderer, L. Scaling law for pinning forces of dirty indium films. J Low Temp Phys 41, 169–177 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00117236
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