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Tunneling measurements have been carried out on heavily underdoped, slightly overdoped and partially Ni-substituted Bi2212 single crystals by using a break-junction technique. We find that in-plane tunneling spectra below Tc are the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Mourachkine

A series of MgB$_2$ thin films systematically disordered by neutron irradiation have been studied by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy. The c-axis orientation of the films allowed a reliable determination of local density of state of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Di Capua , H. U. Aebersold , C. Ferdeghini , V. Ferrando , P. Orgiani , M. Putti , M. Salluzzo , R. Vaglio , X. X. Xi

The type I superconductor lead (Pb) has been theoretically predicted to be a two-band superconductor. We use scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) to resolve two superconducting gaps with an energy difference of 150$\,\mu$eV. Tunneling into…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-22 Michael Ruby , Benjamin W. Heinrich , Jose I. Pascual , Katharina J. Franke

We present the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy study of single-crystalline boron doped diamond. The measurements were performed below 100 mK with a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope. The tunneling density of states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Sacepe , C. Chapelier , C. Marcenat , J. Kacmarcik , T. Klein , M. Bernard , E. Bustarret

We report the first low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy study of high quality Bi2223 crystals. We present atomic resolution and show spectroscopic data acquired on two different samples. In one case, for Tc= 109K…

The vortex electronic structure in the multiband superconductor NbSe2 is studied by means of Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy (STS) using a superconducting tip. The use of a superconducting tip (Pb) as a probe provides an enhancement of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. G. Rodrigo , V. Crespo , S. Vieira

Tunneling measurements have been carried out on heavily underdoped and slightly overdoped Bi2212 single crystals by using a break-junction technique. We find that in-plane tunneling spectra below Tc are the combination of incoherent part…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Mourachkine

Tunneling spectroscopy played a central role in the experimental verification of the microscopic theory of superconductivity in the classical superconductors. Initial attempts to apply the same approach to high-temperature superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-29 Oystein Fischer , Martin Kugler , Ivan Maggio-Aprile , Christophe Berthod , Christoph Renner

We investigate vortices in LiFeAs using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy. Zero-field tunneling spectra show two superconducting gaps without detectable spectral weight near the Fermi energy, evidencing fully-gapped multi-band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-12-24 T. Hanaguri , K. Kitagawa , K. Matsubayashi , Y. Mazaki , Y. Uwatoko , H. Takagi

In this work we report c-axis conductance measurements done on a superlattice based on a stack of 2 layers YBa2Cu3O{7-\delta} and 7 layers PrBa2Cu3O{7-\delta} (2:7). We find that these quasi-2D structures show no clear superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Martinez , A. Schattke , M. Jourdan , G. Jakob , H. Adrian

The spatially resolved electrical transport properties have been studied on the surface of optimally-doped superconducting Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 single crystal by using a four-probe scanning tunneling microscopy. While some non-uniform contrast…

Tunneling spectroscopy of epitaxial (100) oriented \chem{YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta}} films was performed using an STM at 4.2 K. On atomically smooth areas, tunneling spectra revealing clear U-shaped gaps with relatively low zero bias conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sharoni , G. Leibovitch , A. Kohen , R. Beck , G. Deutscher , G. Koren , O. Millo

In this paper, potential two-gap superconductivity in Mo$_8$Ga$_{41}$ is addressed in detail by means of thermodynamic and spectroscopic measurements. Combination of highly sensitive ac-calorimetry and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS),…

Static and dynamic transport measurements on stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta single crystals, near to optimal doping, are presented. The zero bias minimum in dynamic conductance is consistent with a normal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 I. F. G. Parker , M. Endres , P. J. Thomas , G. Yang , A. Yurgens , C. E. Gough

We report current driven scanning tunneling spectroscopy (CDSTS) measurements at very low temperatures on vortices in 2H-NbSe2. We find that a current produces an increase of the density of states at the Fermi level in between vortices, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-09-05 A. Maldonado , S. Vieira , H. Suderow

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of superconducting MgB$_2$ ($T_c = 39$ K) were studied on high-density pellets and c-axis oriented films. The sample surfaces were chemically etched to remove surface carbonates and hydroxides, and the data…

The observation of vortices in superconductors was a major breakthrough in developing the conceptual background for superconducting applications. Each vortex carries a flux quantum, and the magnetic field radially decreases from the center.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-22 H. Suderow , I. Guillamon , J. G. Rodrigo , S. Vieira

We present intrinsic tunneling spectroscopy measurements on small Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$ mesas. The tunnel conductance curves show both sharp peaks at the superconducting gap voltage and broad humps representing the $c$-axis…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 V. M. Krasnov , A. Yurgens , D. Winkler , P. Delsing , T. Claeson

The proximity effect between a superconductor and a highly diffusive two-dimensional metal was revealed in a Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy experiment. The in-situ elaborated samples consisted of superconducting single crystalline Pb…

The superconducting compound, LiFeAs, is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. A gap map of the unreconstructed surface indicates a high degree of homogeneity in this system. Spectra at 2 K show two nodeless…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-17 Shun Chi , S. Grothe , Ruixing Liang , P. Dosanjh , W. N. Hardy , S. A. Burke , D. A. Bonn , Y. Pennec