Scanning tunneling microscopy in the superconductor LaSb2

J. A. Galvis; H. Suderow; S. Vieira; S. L. Bud'ko; P. C. Canfield

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.87.214504

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Scanning tunneling microscopy in the superconductor LaSb2

J. A. Galvis, H. Suderow, S. Vieira, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.214504 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We present very low temperature (0.15 K) scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy experiments in the layered superconductor LaSb2. We obtain topographic microscopy images with surfaces showing hexagonal and square atomic size patterns, and observe in the tunneling conductance a superconducting gap. We find well defined quasiparticle peaks located at a bias voltage comparable to the weak coupling s-wave BCS expected gap value (0.17 meV). The amount of states at the Fermi level is however large and the curves are significantly broadened. We find Tc of 1.2 K by following the tunneling conductance with temperature.

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Formula	Reported Tc (K)	Pressure (GPa)	Type
LaSb2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	1.2	Pressure not reported	unknown
LaSb2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	0.4	Pressure not reported	unknown
LaSb2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	2.5	Pressure not reported	onset
LaSb2 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	2.1	0.4 GPa	unknown