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Copper oxides get charged up

A technique for injecting electrons into the surface layers of materials has now been applied to the most mysterious of superconducting compounds — the copper oxides.

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Hugh MacDonald, A. Copper oxides get charged up. Nature 414, 409–410 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35106685

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