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Heating-compensated constant-temperature tunneling measurements on stacks of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x intrinsic junctions

Myung-Ho Bae, Jae-Hyun Choi, Hu-Jong Lee

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/0501209

Abstract

In highly anisotropic layered cuprates such as Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x tunneling measurements on a stack of intrinsic junctions in a high-bias range are often susceptible to self-heating. In this study we monitored the temperature variation of a stack ("sample stack") of intrinsic junctions by measuring the resistance change of a nearby stack ("thermometer stack") of intrinsic junctions, which was strongly thermal-coupled to the sample stack through a common Au electrode. We then adopted a proportional-integral-derivative scheme incorporated with a substrate-holder heater to compensate the temperature variation. This in-situ temperature monitoring and controlling technique allows one to get rid of spurious tunneling effects arising from the self-heating in a high bias range.

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