<i>In situ</i>Measurement of Self-Heating in Intrinsic Tunneling Spectroscopy
<i>In situ</i>Measurement of Self-Heating in Intrinsic Tunneling Spectroscopy
Using advanced sample engineering we performed simultaneous measurements of interlayer tunneling characteristics and in situ monitoring of temperature in Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8 + delta) (Bi-2212) mesas. Together with a systematic study of size dependence of interlayer tunneling, this allowed unambiguous discrimination between artifacts of self-heating and gaps in the electronic spectra of …