Nanostructured Superconductors

• Competing effects of surface phonon softening and quantum size effects on the superconducting properties of nanostructured Pb.
  S Bose, C Galande, S P Chockalingam, R Banerjee, P Raychaudhuri and P Ayyub.
  J. Physics: Condensed Matter 21 (2009) 205702
• Proximity effect controlled superconducting behavior of novel biphasic Pb-Sn nanoparticles embedded in an Al matrix.
  S Bose, V Bhattacharya, K Chattopadhyay and P Ayyub.
  Acta Materialia 56 (2008) 4522
• Superconducting proximity effect in Pb/Ag nanocomposites.
  S Bose and P Ayyub.
  Physical Review B 76 (2007) 144510
• Size induced metal insulator transition in nanostructured Niobium thin films: Intragranular and intergranular contributions.
  S Bose, R Banerjee, A Genc, P Raychaudhuri, H L Fraser and P Ayyub.
  J. Physics: Condensed Matter 18 (2006) 4553
• Upper critical field in nanostructured Nb: Competing effects of the reduction in density of states and the mean free path.
  S Bose, P Raychaudhuri, R Banerjee and P Ayyub.
  Physical Review B 74 (2006) 224502
• Mechanism of the size dependence of the superconducting transition of nanocrystalline Nb.
  S Bose, P Raychaudhuri, R Banerjee, P Vasa and P Ayyub.
  Physical Review Letters 95 (2005) 147003
• Synthesis, transformation and superconductivity of dual phase In-Sn alloy nanoparticles embedded in Al matrix.
  V Bhattacharya, K. Chattopadhyay and P Ayyub.
  Phil. Mag. Lett. 85 (2005) 577
• Proximity effect in Nb/Zr multilayers with variable Nb/Zr ratio.
  R Banerjee, P Vasa, G B Thompson, H L Fraser and P. Ayyub.
  Solid State Commun. 127 (2003) 349
• Suppression of superconductivity in submicron La_1.85Sr_0.15CuO_4-§.
  V R Palkar, P Ayyub, D R Nepali and M S Multani.
  Zeitschrifts fur Physik D 26 (1993) S234
• Formation of theoretical density, microhomogeneous YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x using a microemulsion-mediated process.
  P Ayyub, A N Maitra and D O Shah.
  Physica C: Superconductivity 168 (1990) 571
• Size effects in microparticle high temperature superconducting ceramics YBa₂Cu₃O₇ and Bi₂CaSr₂Cu₂O₈.
  M S Multani, P Guptasarma, V R Palkar, P Ayyub and A V Gurjar.
  Physics Letters A 142 (1989) 293