I built one of the first low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes, and used it to make tunneling measurements of the
energy gaps of the high Tc cuprate superconductors, including some of the first tunneling measurements of the
gap in polycrystalline and single crystal YBa2Cu3O7-δ.
"Spatial Variation of the observed energy gap in granular
superconducting NbN films",
J.R. Kirtley, S.I Raider, R.M. Feenstra, and A.P. Fein,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 50,1607(1987).
"Local tunneling measurements of the high-T c.
superconductor La2-xSrxCuO4-y",
J.R. Kirtley, C.C. Tsuei, Sung I. Park, C.C. Chi, J. Rozen,
and M.W. Shafer,
Phys. Rev. B 35,7216(1987).
"Scanning tunneling microscope for low-temperature, high magnetic
field, spatially resolved spectroscopy",
A.P. Fein, J.R. Kirtley, and R.M. Feenstra,
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 58
,1806(1987).
"Properties of epitaxial films of Y Ba 2Cu3O7-d",
P. Chaudhari, R.T. Collins, P. Freitas, R.J. Gambino, J.R. Kirtley,
R.H. Koch, R.B. Laibowitz, F.K. Legoues, T.R. McGuire, T. Penney,
Z. Schlesinger, Armand P. Segmueller, S. Foner, and E.J. McNiff, Jr.
Phys. Rev. B 36,8903(1987).
"Tunneling and infra-red measurements of the superconducting energy gap in the high critical temperature superconductor
Y-Ba-Cu-O", J.R. Kirtley, R.T. Collins, Z. Schlesinger, W.J. Gallagher, R.L. Sandstrom, T.R. Dinger, and D.A. Chance,
Phys. Rev. B 35 ,8846(1987).
"Tunneling measurements
of the dependence of the energy gap on critical temperature in
La2-xSrxCuO4-y",
A.P. Fein, J.R. Kirtley, and M.W. Shafer,
Phys. Rev. B
37,9738(1988).
"Tunneling measurements of the energy gap in
high-Tc superconductors",
J.R. Kirtley,
Int. Journal of Modern Physics B4,
201(1990).
"Point Contact Spectroscopy of
Superconducting U Ru 2Si2",
K. Hasselbach and J.R. Kirtley,
Phys. Rev. B 46,R5826(1992).
