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Scanning tunneling microspectroscopy of solids and surfaces

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5755662
Major progress has been made this year in our work on single crystals of Bi{sub 2}Sr{sub 2}CaCu{sub 2}O{sub 8+y} (BSCCO) grown in our laboratory in a transverse temperature gradient. We have obtained large crystals of improving quality and tunneling data which are superior to any we have seen elsewhere. In our first publication on this, we have identified a pair breaking process which appears near {Tc} and apparently is related to the absence of the Hebel-Slichter peak in 1/T{sub 1} vs T in this material. In more recent work much improved data reveal features in the tunnel conductance dI/dV which appear to agree with the proximity effect-superlattice'' model of the tunneling conductance of BSCCO described by Tachiki and coworkers. We devote a major portion of this report to this and other research topics, on which work is continuing, and briefly describe advances in Instrumentation that have occurred this year.
Research Organization:
Polytechnic Univ., Brooklyn, NY (USA). Dept. of Physics
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-87ER45301
OSTI ID:
5755662
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/45301-4; ON: DE91014515
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English