Electron Tunneling Study of NbSe3

Abstract
The two CDW energy gaps of NbSe3 were measured by means of the point contact tunneling technique. The peak to peak values of energy gaps at T=4.2K are·typically 2ΔH≃180 mV and 2ΔL≃73 mV from the NbSe3-Au junction, where ΔH and ΔL correspond to the higher CDW transition temperature TH=145K and lower one TL=59K, respectively. From these values, we obtained that 2ΔH/kTH=14.4 and 2ΔL/kTL=14.3, which are much larger than the DCS value.