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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy studies of single layer high-Tc cuprate Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+delta

Ma, Jihua January 2009 (has links)
Thesis advisor: Hong Ding / Thesis advisor: Vidya Madhavan / High temperature superconductivity has been one of the most challenging problems in condensed matter physics since its discovery. This dissertation presents systematic studies on the single layer high temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+delta by scanning tunneling microscopy. The STM results have been compared to Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data. Using STM spectroscopy and ARPES we observed two distinct gaps that coexist both in real space and in the antinodal region of momentum space, below the superconducting transition temperature. By looking at the energy scale of these two gaps along with the temperature dependence data, we fnd that the small gap is associated with superconductivity. The large gap persists above Tc, and seems linked to observed charge ordering. We also find a strong correlation between the large and small gaps suggesting that they are affected by similar physical processes. This is the first time that two coexisting and competing energy scales have been directly observed in STM spectroscopy. Combining this with ARPES data, we show that the pseudogap may be a diffferent order parameter from the superconducting phase. This provides support to the recently proposed "two gaps scenario" and should lead to more experimental discovery and theoretical discussions. In this dissertation we also discuss the spatial properties of the scanning tunneling microscopy conductance maps, as well as the charge ordering pattern at high energies. We observe interesting periodic patterns at low energies which can not be explained by a simple charge density wave picture. We also fnd the surprising bias dependence in terms of the contrast reversal. We propose a model of STM measuring effect to explain these phenomena. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Physics.
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Nature and organization of the CuO 2 -plane

Dudy, Lenart E. 03 April 2009 (has links)
Diese experimentelle Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Einkristallen der Bi Kuprate. Mittels Rastertunnelmikroskopie und der Beugung langsamer Elektronen wurde die strukturellen Eigenschaften untersucht. Es wurde ein bestehendes pseudobinäres Blei-Temperatur Phasendiagram erweitert. Mittels der Charakterisierungsresultate der energiedispersive Röntgenspektroskopie und der AC-Suszeptibilität wurde gezeigt, dass an bestimmten Lochdotierungen die Sprungtemperatur unterdrückt ist. Diese Tatsache wird für zwei Variationen des Bi2201 Kuprat-Systems bewiesen - durch Literaturdaten auch für LSCO. Desweiteren wurde argumentiert, dass die sogenannte Checkerboard-Ordnung nicht eine Ordnung der elektronischen Struktur ist. Vielmehr kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass Sie durch Dotanten-Atome verursacht wird. Dabei könnte der zusätzlichen Sauerstoff eine Bedeutung haben. Die Pseudolücken-Phase wurde mittels winkelaufgelöster Photoemission (ARPES) sowie Widerstandsmessungen untersucht. Durch ARPES konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Lücke in der antinodalen Richtung keinen grossen Anteil einer Supraleitungslücke aufweist, sondern mehr von der Pseudolückenphase bestimmt ist. Es wurde festgestellt, dass in der winkelaufgelösten Photoemission nur eine Übergangstemperatur sichtbar war, während bei den Widerstandsmessungen zwei Übergangstemperaturen sichtbar waren. Zudem wurde gezeigt, dass die Pseudolückenphase auch auf der überdotierten Seite existiert. Ein ganz und gar neues Ergebnis ist der dotierungsabhängige Verlauf der Pseudolücken-Temperatur und der in ARPES gemessenen Pseudolücke. Es zeigte sich dort zweifelsfrei, dass die Pseudolücken-Eigenschaften an genau denselben Dotierungen starke Änderungen aufweisen, an denen auch die Sprungtemperatur unterdrückt ist. Deshalb wurde propagiert, dass die Supraleitung durch Paarung von Defektlöchern in einem ansonsten magnetisch- und ladungs-hochgeordnetem Elektronensystem entsteht. / This thesis deals with the experimental exploration of the high-temperature superconducting Bi-cuprate system and mainly with single crystals of the one-layer Bi2201. To begin, the structural change resulting from Pb substitution was explored by using topological scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and low-energy electron diffraction (LEED). The resulting morphologies were explained in a pseudo-binary phase-diagram. Using energy dispersive x-ray analysis and AC-susceptibility, it was proven that, for two variations of Bi2201 and also for LSCO, the superconducting transition temperature (TC) always drops at the same hole-doping values - an effect that might be explained by the so-called ''magic doping fractions''. By analyzing STM-data, it was reasonably argued that the so-called ''checkerboard order'' is not preferentially due to an ordering of the carriers in the Copper-Oxygen-plane. In the interpretation presented here, it is caused by dopant-atoms or dopant-complexes. The role of the Oxygen might be of particular importance. Measurements concerning the pseudogap-phase were then shown. Using angular resolved photoemission (ARPES), it was found that the gap in the antinodal direction is dominantly caused by the pseudogap-phase. Interestingly, while resistivity measurements detect two crossover temperatures, ARPES detects only the lower pseudogap-temperature. It can also be stated that the pseudogap also exists in the overdoped region. The most important finding about the pseudogap-temperature and the pseudogap-magnitude was that they also react on the doping values of the depressions in TC. Due to this finding, it was proposed that superconductivity occurs when an otherwise perfect charge-ordered and spin-ordered two-dimensional electronic system has mobile defective holes.

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