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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 21(80)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.80.214518

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Probing microscopic variations of superconductivity on the surface ofBa(Fe1−xCox)2As2single crystals

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Abstract

The spatially resolved electrical transport properties have been studied on the surface of optimally doped superconducting Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 single crystal by using a four-probe scanning tunneling microscopy. While some nonuniform contrast appears near the edge of the cleaved crystal, the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) reveals mostly uniform contrast. For the regions that showed uniform SEM contrast, a sharp superconducting transition at TC=22.1K has been observed with a transition width DeltaTC=0.2K . In the nonuniform contrast region, TC is found to vary between 19.6 and 22.2 K with DeltaTC from 0.3 to 3.2 K. The wavelength dispersive x-ray spectroscopy reveals that Co concentration remains 7.72% in the uniform region, but changes between 7.38% and 7.62% in the nonuniform region. Thus the variations of superconductivity are associated with local compositional change.