Tunneling measurements of the superconductor Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4-delta

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Ekino, T [1 ]
Doukan, T [1 ]
Fujii, H [1 ]
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[1] HIROSHIMA UNIV,FAC SCI,HIGASHIHIROSHIMA 739,JAPAN
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10.1007/BF00768445
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We report tunneling measurements of the electron-doped superconductor Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4-delta using break junctions. The observed finest gap structure is well expressed by the BCS density of states with the energy gap of Delta = 6.1 meV and a very small broadening parameter, having the ratio 2 Delta/k(B)T(c) = 8.2 with T-c = 17.3 K. These features are similar to our tunneling results for the hole-doped cuprate superconductors. Therefore we find no essential difference in the gap structure, in spite of a common believing of the pairing-symmetry difference between them.
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