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Superconductivity in ultrathin films

III. Fluctuations at the Resistive Transition of Beryllium-Aluminium Alloys

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Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter

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It is shown that the pair breaking parameter of the Maki-Thompson contributions to the fluctuation conductivity above the superconducting transition temperature has the same thickness dependence as the transition temperature depression in very thin amorphous Be-Al films. Both can be ascribed to an extremely thin surface sheath with suppressed superconductivity.

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Granqvist, C.G., Claeson, T. Superconductivity in ultrathin films. Z Physik B 20, 241–245 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01352585

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