Undergraduate experiment in point-contact spectroscopy with a Nb/Au junction

Details Undergraduate experiment in point-contact spectroscopy with a Nb/Au junction Undergraduate experiment in point-contact spectroscopy with a Nb/Au junction

2011-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/1110.6254v1

American Journal of Physics 80(2) 133 (2012)

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Physics Education

10 pages, 8 figures

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We describe an experiment in superconductivity suitable for an advanced undergraduate laboratory. Point-contact spectroscopy is performed by measuring the differential conductance between an electrochemically etched gold tip and a 100-nm superconducting niobium film with a transition temperature Tc ~= 7 K. By fitting the results to Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk theory using a finite lifetime of quasiparticles, we obtain a superconducting gap energy \delta ~= 1.53 meV, a lower bound to the Fermi velocity vF >= 3.1 x 10^-7 cm/s, and a BCS coherence length \zeta ~= 43 nm for niobium. These results are in good agreement with previous measurements.

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