Overview
This thesis reports on the use of scanning tunnelling microscopy to elucidate the atomic-scale electronic structure of a charge density wave, revealing that it has a d-symmetry form factor, hitherto unobserved in nature. It then details the development of an entirely new class of scanned probe: the scanning Josephson tunnelling microscope. This scans the Josephson junction formed between a cuprate superconducting microscope tip and the surface of a cuprate sample, thereby imaging the superfluid density of the sample with nanometer resolution. This novel method is used to establish the existence of a spatially modulated superconducting condensate, something postulated theoretically over half a century ago but never previously observed.
- | Author: Stephen Edkins
- | Publisher: Springer
- | Publication Date: Sep 11, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 187 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 331965974X
- | ISBN-13: 9783319659749
