Comparative spectroscopic study of NiS2-xSex single crystals

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Rodrigo, JG
Vieira, S
Somasundaram, P
Honig, JM
Chudnovsky, FA
Andreev, VN
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[1] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Mat Condensada, Lab Bajas Temp, Inst Univ Ciencia Mat Nicolas Cabrera, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
[2] Purdue Univ, Dept Chem, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[3] AF Ioffe Phys Tech Inst, St Petersburg 194021, Russia
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10.1103/PhysRevB.58.10256
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By means of a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope we have carried out a comparative study of the characteristic I-V (intensity vs voltage) curves, taken in tunnel and point-contact regimes, on NiS2-xSex single crystals, with x = 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 between 4.2 and 300 K. We show that for certain ranges of x a gap opens up in the density of states, which we ascribe to electron correlation effects that become prominent when Se is substituted for S at concentrations close to x = 0.5. [S0163-1829(98)10639-2].
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