Conductance Spectroscopy of Exfoliated Thin Flakes of NbxBi2Se3
- Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States)
- City College of New of CUNY, New York, NY (United States); Department of Physics, Graduate Center of CUNY, New York, NY (United States)
We study unconventional superconductivity in exfoliated single crystals of a promising three-dimensional (3D) topological superconductor candidate, Nb-doped Bi2Se3 through differential conductance spectroscopy and magneto-transport. The strong anisotropy of the critical field along the out-of-plane direction suggests that the thin exfoliated flakes are in the quasi-2D limit. Normal metal-superconductor (NS) contacts with either high or low transparencies made by depositing gold leads onto Nb-doped Bi2Se3 flakes both show significant enhancement in zero bias conductance and coherence dips at the superconducting energy gap. Such behavior is inconsistent with conventional Blonder–Tinkham–Klapwijk theory. Instead, we discuss how our results are consistent with p-wave pairing symmetry, supporting the possibility of topological superconductivity in Nb-doped Bi2Se3. Lastly, we observe signatures of multiple superconducting energy gaps, which could originate from multiple Fermi surfaces reported earlier in bulk crystals.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- DMR-1506152; HRD-1547830; DMR-1255607
- OSTI ID:
- 1543686
- Journal Information:
- Nano Letters, Vol. 19, Issue 1; ISSN 1530-6984
- Publisher:
- American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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