Point-contact spectroscopy on antiferromagnetic Kondo semiconductors CeT2Al10 (T = Ru and Os) |
(a) and (b) The temperature evolution of soft point-contact conductance curves G(V) as a function of the biased voltage for CeRu2Al10 with surface along b axis and an arbitrary direction, respectively. The curves are vertically shifted for clarity and the dashed lines are a guide for eyes to show the temperature evolution of the AFM gap Δ1 and hybridization gap Δh, respectively. The arrows mark the position of the kink structure Δ2 in the conductance curve G(V). (c) Temperature dependence of the extracted AFM gap Δ1 for CeRu2Al10 in three crystallographic orientations in comparison with the standard mean-field BCS curves and the Δ2 value for the kink structure also follows the BCS behavior. |