The purpose of this review is to focus from an experimental point-of-view on the new
physical properties of some of the thinnest superconducting films that can be fabricated and …

Quantum confinement and surface effects (SEs) dramatically modify most solid state
phenomena as one approaches the nanometer scale, and superconductivity is no …

We have fabricated ultrathin lead films on silicon substrates with atomic-scale control of the
thickness over a macroscopic area. We observed oscillatory behavior of the …

Superconductivity in the extreme two-dimensional limit is studied on ultrathin lead films
down to two atomic layers, where only a single channel of quantum well states exists …

Recent progress in two-dimensional superconductors with atomic-scale thickness is
reviewed mainly from the experimental point of view. The superconducting systems treated …

By using a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope we have probed the
superconducting energy gap of epitaxially grown Pb films as a function of the layer thickness …

We have carried out first-principles calculations of Pb (111) films up to 25 monolayers to
study the oscillatory quantum size effects exhibited in the surface energy and work function …

Superconductivity is inevitably suppressed in reduced dimensionality,,,,,,,,. Questions of how
thin superconducting wires or films can be before they lose their superconducting properties …

The field of nanoscience was pioneered in the 1980s with the groundbreaking research on
clusters, which later led to the discovery of fullerenes. Handbook of Nanophysics: Clusters …

Scanning-tunneling microscopy observation of Pb nanocrystals grown on Cu (111) indicates
that in the equilibrium distribution of island heights some heights appear much more …