• 文献标题:   Investigation of the two-gap superconductivity in a few-layer NbSe2-graphene heterojunction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HAN TY, SHEN JY, YUAN NFQ, LIN JXZ, WU ZF, WU YY, XU SG, AN LH, LONG G, WANG YW, LORTZ R, WANG N
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Hong Kong Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.97.060505
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

We investigated the superconductivity in a few-layer NbSe2-graphene heterojunction by differential conductance spectroscopy. Because of the gate-tunable Fermi level of the few-layer graphene, used here as a tunneling electrode in a nano-point-contact spectroscopy setup, the differential conductance of the heterojunction showed highly sensitive dependence on the gate voltage, which allowed us to probe the nature of the superconducting gap functions with unprecedented detail by continuously tuning the transparency of the junction between the spectroscopic tunneling and the Andreev reflection limits. Characteristic features associated with a two-gap superconductivity in NbSe2 were reproducibly observed in both limits and between, e.g., in the form of a central conductance dip with two sets of coherence peaks when the Fermi level was close to the charge neutrality point of graphene. From fits with the Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk model, two gaps with their temperature dependence were extracted. The two gaps associated with the two-band superconductivity in NbSe2 followed the expected temperature behavior in the limit of weak interband scattering, with a gap to T-c ratio suggesting a weak to moderately strong coupling in few-layer systems.