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Very close to the superconducting transition temperature, the ratio of the critical magnetic field for surface superconductivity to the upper critical field for the vortex state, Hc3Hc2, falls far below the Saint James-de Gennes factor of 1.7.
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Ostenson et al. (1969) studied this question.
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