TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of initial composition on the flux pinning of melt-processed (SmxEu1-x)Ba2Cu3O7-δ
AU - Hu, A.
AU - Sakai, N.
AU - Huang, D. X.
AU - Chikumoto, N.
AU - Murakami, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as Collaborative Research and Development of Fundamental Technologies for Superconductivity Applications. One author (AH) is grateful to M. Matsui, S. Nariki and K. Ogasawara for experimental help.
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PY - 2002/10/1
Y1 - 2002/10/1
N2 - Superconducting properties of melt-processed (SmxEu1-x)Ba2Cu3O7-δ were investigated by varying the Sm/Eu ratio in the initial composition while maintaining the mixture of RE123 and RE2BaO4 in a molar ratio of 1:0.15 along the REBa2Cu3O7-δ-RE2BaO4 line (RE = Sm and Eu). A suppression of the height of peak effect and the shift of the peak position to higher fields concurred with increasing Eu concentration. Such a systematical variation was ascribed to a narrowing compositional fluctuation. Experiments also unveiled a dramatic enhancement of the irreversibility line for the sample with the higher peak field, which supported the fact that chemical modulation was a dominant pinning in high fields.
AB - Superconducting properties of melt-processed (SmxEu1-x)Ba2Cu3O7-δ were investigated by varying the Sm/Eu ratio in the initial composition while maintaining the mixture of RE123 and RE2BaO4 in a molar ratio of 1:0.15 along the REBa2Cu3O7-δ-RE2BaO4 line (RE = Sm and Eu). A suppression of the height of peak effect and the shift of the peak position to higher fields concurred with increasing Eu concentration. Such a systematical variation was ascribed to a narrowing compositional fluctuation. Experiments also unveiled a dramatic enhancement of the irreversibility line for the sample with the higher peak field, which supported the fact that chemical modulation was a dominant pinning in high fields.
KW - Compositional fluctuation
KW - Irreversibility line
KW - Peak effect
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U2 - 10.1016/S0921-4534(02)01523-X
DO - 10.1016/S0921-4534(02)01523-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:17044460927
VL - 378-381
SP - 692
EP - 696
JO - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
JF - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
SN - 0921-4534
IS - PART 1
ER -