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Vortex pinning by fission tracks in 235U-doped Ag/Bi2223 tapes
- Source :
- Solid State Communications. 118:607-610
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2001.
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Abstract
- Systematic study of the flux pinning at 77 K in $^{235}$U-oxide doped Ag-sheathed Bi2223 tapes irradiated by thermal neutrons has been performed. Within the explored range of $^{235}$U contents ($c\leq 0.75$ at\%) and neutron fluences ($\phi \leq 6\cdot 10^{19}$ m$^{-2}$) pinning capacity increases linearly with fission track density (proportional to $c\phi $). In particular, field $B^{\ast }$ for the maximum volume pinning force ($% F_{p\max }=J_{c}B^{\ast }$) and the irreversiblity field $B_{irr}$ increase linearly with $c\phi $ both for fields parallel and perpendicular to the tape plane. Since $J_{c}$ decreases with $c$ in tapes doped with $^{235}$% U-oxide, $B_{irr}$(77 K, perpendicular field) seems limited to about 4 T. However, more subtle addition of $^{235}$U atoms can produce tapes with flux pinning exceeding that in YBCO type of materials.
- Subjects :
- Flux pinning
Materials science
Condensed matter physics
Field (physics)
Fission
high Tc superconductors
flux pinning and creep
Doping
General Chemistry
Condensed Matter Physics
Neutron temperature
Condensed Matter::Superconductivity
Materials Chemistry
Perpendicular
Neutron
Pinning force
Nuclear chemistry
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00381098
- Volume :
- 118
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Solid State Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....393fe4a013b850c0a935dd0e45a38284