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Tunneling spectroscopy measurement of the superconductor gap parameter of MgB2

Amos Sharoni, Israel Felner, Oded Millo

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0102325

Abstract

Cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy and magnetization measurements were used to study the superconducting properties of MgB2. The magnetization measurements show a sharp superconductor transition onset at Tc = 38.5 K, in agreement with previous works. The tunneling spectra exhibit BCS gap structures, with gap parameters in the range of 5 to 7 meV, yielding a ratio of 2delat/KTc ~ 3-4. This suggests that MgB2 is a conventional BCS (s-wave) superconductor, either in the weak-coupling or in the `intermediate-coupling` regime

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