By imaging interlayer vortices in single-layer cuprates, we showed that interlayer tunneling was an insufficiently
strong mechanism to account for the high critical temperatures observed in these superconductors.
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K.A. Moler, J.R. Kirtley, D.G. Hinks, T.W. Li, and M. Xu, Science 279, 1193(1998).
"c-axis
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J.R. Kirtley, K.A. Moler, G. Villard, and A. Maignan,
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"Global and local measures of the intrinsic Josephson
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A.A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, K.A. Moler, J.R. Kirtley, J.L. de
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