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Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3Tunneling Spectroscopy of Heavily Underdoped Crystals of Bi2sr2cacu2o8-?(Elsevier Ltd., 2000) Özyüzer, Lütfi; Zasadzinski, John F.; Miyakawa, Nobuaki; Kendziora, Christopher A.; Sha, J.; Hinks, David G.; Gray, Kenneth E.Crystals of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ with optimal Tc=95 K have been underdoped using two different methods and the superconducting gaps have been obtained by tunneling. In some cases, three different tunneling geometries have been utilized: point contact, STM and break junctions. The first doping method involves control of the oxygen content by annealing in various partial pressures of oxygen. These crystals exhibit a narrow spread of gap values over a wide doping range from overdoped (Tc=56 K) to underdoped with Tc=70 K. However, for underdoped crystals with Tc midpoints in the range 25 K - 63 K, there is a dramatic increase in the spread of gap values which may signal the development of static phase separation of either chemical or electronic origin. To avoid possible chemical phase separation, we have explored another doping procedure which incorporates Dy substitution on the Ca site. These crystals exhibit a relatively narrow superconducting transition width and some preliminary tunneling spectra will be presented.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Simultaneous Quasiparticle and Josephson Tunneling in Bscco-2212 Break Junctions(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 1999) Özyüzer, Lütfi; Miyakawa, Nobuaki; Zasadzinski, John F.; Yusof, Zikri M.; Romano, Pierom; Kendziora, Christopher A.; Hinks, David G.; Gray, Kenneth E.Tunneling measurements are reported for superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) break junctions on underdoped, optimally-doped, and overdoped single crystals of tSrsCaCiOs-).,! (Bi2212). The junction I -V characteristics exhibit welldefined quasiparticle current jumps at eV = 2A as well as hysteretic Josephson currents. The quasiparticle branch has been analyzed in the framework of dxa_y2 (d-wave) superconductivity and indicates that there is preferential tunneling along the lobe directions of the d-wave gap. For overdoped Bi-2212 with TC-62 K, the Josephson current is measured as a function of junction resistance, Rn, which varied by two orders of magnitude (1 kO to 100 kO). IcRn product is proportional to the 0.47 power of /c and displays a maximum of 7.0 mV. When the hole doping is decreased from overdoped (Tc=62 K) to the underdoped regime (Tc=70 K), the average IcRn product increases as does the quasiparticle gap. The maximum IcRn is ~ 40% of the A/e at each doping level, with a value as high as 25 mV in underdoped Bi-2212.