We report on the temperature dependence of the quasiparticle density of states in the simple binary compound MgB(2) directly measured using scanning tunneling microscope (STM). To achieve high quality tunneling conditions, a small crystal of MgB(2) is used as a tip in the STM experiment. The "sample" is chosen to be a 2H- NbSe(2) single crystal presenting an atomically flat surface. At low temperature the tunneling conductance spectra show a gap at the Fermi energy followed by two well-pronounced conductance peaks on each side. They appear at voltages V(S) approximately +/-3.8 mV and V(L) approximately +/-7.8 mV. With rising temperature both peaks disappear at the T(C) of the bulk MgB(2), a behavior consistent with the model of two-gap superconductivity. The possibility of a particular proximity effect is also discussed.
The optical transitions in ensembles of colloidal CdSe-based quantum dots (QDs) have been systematically studied as a function of the net QDs’ polarity/polarization and of the solvent’s polarity. While the general trend observed for all QD systems dispersed in different solvents is similar, the spectral shifts are more pronounced in core QDs than in core/shell structures. Our results can be rationalized by taking account of the electric field experienced by the QDs that results from their effective polarization in solvents of different polarities (quantum confined Stark effect) as well as from the effect of the external dielectric environment (solvatochromatic effect).
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