Superconducting phonon spectroscopy using a low‐temperature scanning tunneling microscope

Using a hybrid superconducting-ferromagnetic tip as a magnetic scanning tunneling microscope

Approaching a two-component tip made of a superconductor (S) and a ferromagnet (F) from a magnetic sample allows for two distinct tunneling processes between the ferromagnets, through S: i) Charge and spin are conserved; ii) Charge and spin are reversed, e.g. a Cooper pair flows from S, one electron going into F, the other into the sample. At subgap voltages, this allows two currents to flow fr...

Imaging the electron-boson coupling in superconducting FeSe films using a scanning tunneling microscope.

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy has been used to reveal signatures of a bosonic mode in the local quasiparticle density of states of superconducting FeSe films. The mode appears below Tc as a "dip-hump" feature at energy Ω∼4.7kBTc beyond the superconducting gap Δ. Spectra on strained regions of the FeSe films reveal simultaneous decreases in Δ and Ω. This contrasts with all previous reports on ...

Simulating Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Time-resolved scanning tunneling microscope light emission spectroscopy of Sb2Te3

We have successfully added ps temporal resolution to scanning tunneling microscope (STM) light emission spectroscopy. STM light emission spectra of Sb2Te3 were measured in the configuration that the tip sample gap of the STM is irradiated by a pair of pump and probe laser pulses with a duration less than 2 ps each, and were analyzed as a function of optical delay time between the pump and probe...

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy with superconducting tips of Al

We present Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy measurements at 0.1 K using tips made of Al. At zero field, the atomic lattice and charge density wave of 2H-NbSe2 are observed, and under magnetic fields the peculiar electronic surface properties of vortices are precisely resolved. The tip density of states is influenced by the local magnetic field of the vortex, providing for a new probe of the magn...