Carbon Nanotubes Encapsulating Superconducting Single-Crystalline Tin Nanowires. Nano Lett

ABSTRACT Superconducting low dimensional systems are the natural choice for fast and sensitive infrared detection, because of their quantum nature and the low-noise, cryogenic operation environment. On the other hand, monochromatic and coherent electron beams, emitted from superconductors and carbon-based nanostructured materials, respectively, are significant for the development of electron optical systems such as electron microscopes and electron-beam nanofabrication systems. Here we describe for the first time a simple method which yields carbon nanotubes encapsulating single crystalline superconducting tin nanowires by employing the catalytic chemical vapor deposition method over solid tin dioxide. The superconducting tin nanowires, with diameters 15−35 nm, are covered with well-graphitized carbon walls and show, due to their reduced diameters, a critical magnetic field (H c ) more than 30 times higher than the value of bulk metallic tin. The hot-electron phenomena in low-dimensional superconducting systems are of fundamental importance for high energy resolution bolometers. 1 Photon absorption in a superconducting detector creates an avalanche electron charge, 2 or 3 orders of magnitude higher than that in a semiconductor for the same photon energy. This results in an enhanced resolution in energy-resolving devices, such as superconducting tunnel junctions, 2 and extends the range of detectable energies

Structural Studies of Binary and Pseudo Binary Sodium-Borate Glasses of High Sodium Content

Journal URL: http://www.societyofglasstechnology.org.uk/cgi-bin/open.cgi?page=%20PC/PC-00a&sessionid=85597106; http://www.societyofglasstechnology.org.uk/cgi-bin/open.cgi?page=journal&sessionid=8559710

Spectroscopic Study of Carbonate Retention in High-Basicity Borate Glasses

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Far-Infrared Spectra of Magnesium Sodium-Borate Glasses

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