scholarly journals The critical current density of grain boundary channels in polycrystalline HTS and LTS superconductors in magnetic fields

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 095006 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Sunwong ◽  
J S Higgins ◽  
Y Tsui ◽  
M J Raine ◽  
D P Hampshire
Author(s):  
I-Fei Tsu ◽  
D.L. Kaiser ◽  
S.E. Babcock

A current theme in the study of the critical current density behavior of YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) grain boundaries is that their electromagnetic properties are heterogeneous on various length scales ranging from 10s of microns to ˜ 1 Å. Recently, combined electromagnetic and TEM studies on four flux-grown bicrystals have demonstrated a direct correlation between the length scale of the boundaries’ saw-tooth facet configurations and the apparent length scale of the electrical heterogeneity. In that work, enhanced critical current densities are observed at applied fields where the facet period is commensurate with the spacing of the Abrikosov flux vortices which must be pinned if higher critical current density values are recorded. To understand the microstructural origin of the flux pinning, the grain boundary topography and grain boundary dislocation (GBD) network structure of [001] tilt YBCO bicrystals were studied by TEM and HRTEM.


2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 1069-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Beck ◽  
Guy Leibovitch ◽  
Alexander Milner ◽  
Alexander Gerber ◽  
Guy Deutscher

1996 ◽  
Vol 46 (S5) ◽  
pp. 2757-2758
Author(s):  
M. Decroux ◽  
N. Cheggour ◽  
A. Gupta ◽  
V. Bouquet ◽  
R. Chevrel ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 113905 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Irjala ◽  
H. Huhtinen ◽  
V. P. S. Awana ◽  
M. Falter ◽  
P. Paturi

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