TY - JOUR
T1 - A comparison of the irreversibility line between melt-processed Nd-Ba-Cu-O and Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductors
AU - Waki, K.
AU - Higuchi, T.
AU - Yoo, S. I.
AU - Murakami, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NEDO for R&D of Industrial Science and Technology Frontier Program.
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PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - In the present work, we have performed a detailed comparative study of the irreversibility line (IL) among flux-grown NdBa2Cu3O7-d (Nd123) single crystal, melt-grown Nd-Ba-Cu-O (NdBCO) and melt-grown Y-Ba-Cu-O (YBCO) bulks by d.c. magnetometry and a.c. susceptometry. ILs were determined by measuring d.c. magnetization hysteresis loops, the fundamental χ1 and third harmonic χ3 signals of a.c. susceptibility for the fields parallel to the c-axis of samples (H//c). Among these, melt processed NdBCO exhibited the highest IL. On reduced temperature scale, however, ILs from the χ3 signals for melt-grown NdBCO and YBCO tended to merge together, suggesting that real depinning lines are insensitive to the field-induced flux pinning centers existing in NdBCO, including the fluxgrown sample, but are rather sensitive to the secondary phase inclusions existing in melt-grown samples.
AB - In the present work, we have performed a detailed comparative study of the irreversibility line (IL) among flux-grown NdBa2Cu3O7-d (Nd123) single crystal, melt-grown Nd-Ba-Cu-O (NdBCO) and melt-grown Y-Ba-Cu-O (YBCO) bulks by d.c. magnetometry and a.c. susceptometry. ILs were determined by measuring d.c. magnetization hysteresis loops, the fundamental χ1 and third harmonic χ3 signals of a.c. susceptibility for the fields parallel to the c-axis of samples (H//c). Among these, melt processed NdBCO exhibited the highest IL. On reduced temperature scale, however, ILs from the χ3 signals for melt-grown NdBCO and YBCO tended to merge together, suggesting that real depinning lines are insensitive to the field-induced flux pinning centers existing in NdBCO, including the fluxgrown sample, but are rather sensitive to the secondary phase inclusions existing in melt-grown samples.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0964-1807(98)00016-7
DO - 10.1016/S0964-1807(98)00016-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030622476
SN - 0964-1807
VL - 5
SP - 133
EP - 138
JO - Applied Superconductivity
JF - Applied Superconductivity
IS - 1-6
ER -