Reproducible superconducting gap on clean surfaces of BiSrCaCuO prepared by etching with a scanning tunneling microscope tip

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Volumn 300, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 26-32

  Matsuura, Shinobu ^a   Taneda, Takahiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Wataru ^a,c   Sugawara, Hiroharu ^a   Hasegawa, Tetsuya ^b   Kitazawa, Koichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Background conductance; Energy gap; Scanning tunneling microscopy; Surface etching; Tunneling spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; ENERGY GAP; ETCHING; FERMI LEVEL; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BACKGROUND CONDUCTANCE; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0032069656     PISSN: 09214534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-4534(98)00096-3     Document Type: Article

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