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Structural and electronic inhomogeneity of superconducting Nb-doped Bi2Se3. / Kevy, Simone M.; Lund, Henriette E.; Wollesen, Laura et al.

In: Physical Review B, Vol. 103, No. 8, 085107, 02.2021.

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Harvard

Kevy, SM, Lund, HE, Wollesen, L, Dalgaard, KJ, Hsu, YT, Wiedmann, S, Bianchi, M, Holt, AJU, Curcio, D, Biswas, D, Jones, AJH, Volckaert, K, Cacho, C, Dudin, P, Hofmann, P & Bremholm, M 2021, 'Structural and electronic inhomogeneity of superconducting Nb-doped Bi2Se3', Physical Review B, vol. 103, no. 8, 085107. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.085107

APA

Kevy, S. M., Lund, H. E., Wollesen, L., Dalgaard, K. J., Hsu, Y. T., Wiedmann, S., Bianchi, M., Holt, A. J. U., Curcio, D., Biswas, D., Jones, A. J. H., Volckaert, K., Cacho, C., Dudin, P., Hofmann, P., & Bremholm, M. (2021). Structural and electronic inhomogeneity of superconducting Nb-doped Bi2Se3. Physical Review B, 103(8), [085107]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.085107

CBE

Kevy SM, Lund HE, Wollesen L, Dalgaard KJ, Hsu YT, Wiedmann S, Bianchi M, Holt AJU, Curcio D, Biswas D, et al. 2021. Structural and electronic inhomogeneity of superconducting Nb-doped Bi2Se3. Physical Review B. 103(8):Article 085107. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.085107

MLA

Kevy, Simone M. et al. "Structural and electronic inhomogeneity of superconducting Nb-doped Bi2Se3". Physical Review B. 2021. 103(8). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.085107

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Kevy SM, Lund HE, Wollesen L, Dalgaard KJ, Hsu YT, Wiedmann S et al. Structural and electronic inhomogeneity of superconducting Nb-doped Bi2Se3. Physical Review B. 2021 Feb;103(8). 085107. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.085107

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Kevy, Simone M. ; Lund, Henriette E. ; Wollesen, Laura et al. / Structural and electronic inhomogeneity of superconducting Nb-doped Bi2Se3. In: Physical Review B. 2021 ; Vol. 103, No. 8.

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AU - Volckaert, Klara

AU - Cacho, Cephise

AU - Dudin, Pavel

AU - Hofmann, Philip

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N2 - The crystal structure, electronic structure, and transport properties of crystals with the nominal composition Nb0.25Bi2Se3 are investigated. X-ray diffraction reveals that the as-grown crystals display phase segregation and contain major contributions of BiSe and the superconducting misfit layer compound (BiSe)1.1NbSe2. The inhomogeneous character of the samples is also reflected in the electronic structure and transport properties of different single crystals. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) reveals an electronic structure that resembles poor-quality Bi2Se3 with an ill-defined topological surface state. High-quality topological surface states are instead observed when using a highly focused beam size, i.e., nanoARPES. While the superconducting transition temperature is found to vary between 2.5 and 3.5 K, the majority of the bulk single crystals does not exhibit a zero-resistance state suggesting filamentary superconductivity in the materials. Susceptibility measurements of the system together with the temperature dependence of the coherence length extracted from the upper critical field are consistent with conventional BCS superconductivity of a type II superconductor.

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