Tunneling spectroscopy with intrinsic Josephson junctions in and
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 57 (22) , 14518-14536
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.57.14518
Abstract
The paper presents a detailed discussion of the current-voltage characteristic of intrinsic Josephson junctions in and . In these materials Josephson tunnel junctions are formed naturally between adjacent superconducting CuO bilayers or trilayers. A typical sample consists of a stack of Josephson junctions. We explicitly show that all junctions inside a given sample have identical tunneling characteristics. We discuss the shape (general curvature) of the current-voltage characteristic in terms of a superconducting order parameter that has a predominant symmetry. The product of the intrinsic Josephson junctions turns out to be 2–3 mV, about 10% of the maximum energy gap . The current-voltage characteristic of every individual junction exhibits pronounced structures in the subgap regime. They are best explained by a recently proposed resonant coupling mechanism between infrared active optical -axis phonons and oscillating Josephson currents.
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