Pseudogap behavior in interlayer tunneling spectroscopy in Bi2St2CaCu2O8+x

A pseudogap in the normal-state quasiparticle density of states of high-Tc superconductors has been revealed in many different kinds of experiments. The existence of the pseudogap and the superconducting gap, and the correlation between them has attracted considerable attention because they are believed to be a key to understanding the mechanism of the high-Tc superconductivity. The interlayer tunneling spectroscopy, excluding the surface-dependent effect, is one of the most accurate means to examine the electron spectral characteristics both in the superconducting and the normal states. In this study, a new constant-temperature intrinsic tunneling spectroscopic technique, excluding the overheating effect using the in-situ temperature monitoring combined with the digital proportional-integral-derivative control, is introduced. The implication on the high-Tc superconductivity of the detailed temperature dependencies of the observed spectral weight in Bi2St2CaCu2O8+x high-Tc material for overdoped and underdoped levels is discussed.