Since out - of - plane disorder stabilizes the antinodal pseudogap as was shown in our previous study of the normal state, the present results... ▽ More We found that the length of the Fermi arc decreases with increasing out - of - plane disorder by performing angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements in the superconducting state of optimally doped R = La and
Eu samples of Bi2Sr2 − xRxCuOy.
The results show that the gap around the node at sufficiently low temperatures can be well described by a monotonic d - wave gap function for both
samples and the... ▽ More The energy gap of optimally doped Bi2 (Sr, R) 2CuOy (R = La and
Eu) was probed by angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) using a vacuum ultraviolet laser (photon energy 6.994 eV) or He I resonance line (21.218 eV) as photon source.