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Temperature and Field Dependence of the Energy Gap of MgB2/Pb planar junction

Mohamed H. Badr, Mario Freamat, Yuri Sushko, K. -W. Ng

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0110421

Abstract

We have constructed MgB2/Pb planar junctions for both temperature and field dependence studies. Our results show that the small gap is a true bulk property of MgB2 superconductor, not due to surface effects. The temperature dependence of the energy gap manifests a nearly BCS-like behavior. Analysis of the effect of magnetic field on junctions suggests that the energy gap of MgB2 depends non-linearly on the magnetic field. Moreover, MgB2 has an upper critical field of 15 T, in agreement with some reported Hc2 from transport measurements.

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