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underdope en · VERB

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English dope English underdope From under- + dope.

Meanings

1. To dope at less than the optimal level for superconductivity
   • We note that this range shrinks with underdoping. 2009 January 15, Takeshi Kondo, Rustem Khasanov, Tsunehiro Takeuchi, J, “Competition between the pseudogap and superconductivity in the high-Tc copper oxides”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7227, →DOI:

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