Abstract
Abstract In this report, we show the results of the STM/STS study on the Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+ δ (Bi2223) single crystals whose doping levels were ranging from an optimally doped to an underdoped region. Bi2223 single crystals were grown by a TSFZ method and their doping levels were adjusted with annealing in an oxygen deficient atmosphere. Single crystals were cleaved in an UHV at around 77 K and STM/STS measurements were carried out in the same conditions. We successfully obtained the tunneling spectrum maps as well as topographic images. We found that the superconducting gap was much more homogeneous than in the case of the Bi2212 in optimal doping, but becomes inhomogeneous with decreasing a doping level. This suggests the decoupling of the three Cu-O layers in terms of the SC correlation. More importantly, we found a new periodic modulation in the LDOS map with periods about 2 a 0, which was almost dispersion-less and observed only in the underdoped TC=85 K sample. This modulation is possibly related to the charge/spin order in the inner plane, which is supposed to be highly undrerdoped.
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