Intrinsic c-axis transport in 2212-BSCCO

Intrinsic c - Axis Transport in 2212 - BSCCO

We describe two experimental approaches to circumvent the problem of self-heating in IV measurements on small mesa samples of 2212-BSCCO. Simultaneous dc and temperature measurements have been performed, allowing corrections for heating to be made. Short pulse measurements have also been made, where the IV characteristics and the mesa temperature can be measured on a µs timescale enabling intri...

Intrinsic C-Axis Tunnelling in BSCCO Crystals

Intrinsic c-axis tunnelling in the superconducting state has been measured in zero and finite fields in small mesa structures fabricated on the surface of 2212-BSCCO single crystals. The temperature dependence of the zero-field critical current and quasi-particle conductance is related to microscopic d-wave models in the presence of impurity scattering. The strong field dependence of the c-axis...

Quasiparticle Tunnelling and Field-Dependent Critical Current in 2212- BSCCO

Intrinsic c-axis tunnelling in the superconducting state has been measured in zero and finite fields in small mesa structures fabricated on the surface of 2212-BSCCO single crystals. The temperature dependence of the zero-field critical current and quasi-particle conductance is related to microscopic d-wave models in the presence of impurity scattering. The strong field dependence of the c-axis...

Shapiro Steps in BSCCO Intrinsic Josephson Junctions

Coherent c-axis transport in the underdoped cuprate superconductor YBa2Cu3Oy

B. Vignolle,1 B. J. Ramshaw,2 James Day,2 David LeBoeuf,1 Stéphane Lepault,1 Ruixing Liang,2,3 W. N. Hardy,2,3 D. A. Bonn,2,3 Louis Taillefer,3,4 and Cyril Proust1,3,* 1Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, UPR 3228, (CNRS-INSA-UJF-UPS), Toulouse F-31400, France 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z1, Canada 3Canadian Institute fo...