ELECTRON-TUNNELING IN THE HIGH-TC BISMUTHATE SUPERCONDUCTORS

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SHARIFI, F [1 ]
PARGELLIS, A [1 ]
DYNES, RC [1 ]
MILLER, B [1 ]
HELLMAN, ES [1 ]
ROSAMILIA, J [1 ]
HARTFORD, EH [1 ]
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[1] AT&T BELL LABS,600 MTN AVE,MURRAY HILL,NJ 07974
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1991年 / 44卷 / 22期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.44.12521
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摘要
We have performed extensive tunneling measurements on some high-T(c) superconducting oxides of bismuth: BaPb1-xBixO3, Ba1-xRbxBiO3, and Ba1-xKxBiO3. The results on high-quality single crystals and epitaxial films indicate that these materials are weak-coupled superconductors with 2-DELTA/kT(c) = 3.5 +/- 0.3. The observed quasiparticle excitation spectrum agrees with the BCS model. We also do not observe structure indicating electron-phonon coupling sufficiently strong to account for the T(c) of these materials.
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页码:12521 / 12524
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