Meanings
nounsupermodulation (plural supermodulations)
plural supermodulations
- natural sciencesmodulation of a material's superconductivity
This supermodulation has a periodicity nearly commensurate with four lattice constants in-plane, eight out-of-plane, with long correlation lengths in three dimensions.
2016, Junfeng He, Padraic Shafer, Thomas R. Mion, Vu Thanh Tra, Qing He, J. Kong, Y.-D. Chuang, W. L. Yang, M. J. Graf, J.-Y. Lin, Y.-H. Chu, E. Arenholz, Rui-Hua He, “Observation of a Three-Dimensional Quasi-Long-Range Electronic Supermodulation in YBa2Cu3O7-x/La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 Heterostructures”, in arXiv
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