TY - JOUR
T1 - Restricted reversible region and strongly enhanced pinning in MPMG YBa2Cu3O7 with Y2BaCuO5 inclusions
AU - Sagdahl, L. T.
AU - Lægreid, T.
AU - Fossheim, K.
AU - Murakami, M.
AU - Fujimoto, H.
AU - Gotoh, S.
AU - Yamaguchi, K.
AU - Yamauchi, H.
AU - Koshizuka, N.
AU - Tanaka, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities (NAVF) and Norsk Hydro A/S. One of us (L.T.S. ) especially acknowledgesa stipend from NAVF. We would like to thank Svein Gjolmelsi, Pal Tuset, Olav-Magnar Nes and Marcin Slaski for assistance and helpful discussions. We are grateful to T. SRL for sample preparation.
PY - 1991/1/1
Y1 - 1991/1/1
N2 - Recent work has shown that the melt-powder-melt-grown (MPMG) high temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7 with Y2BaCuO5 inclusions sustains unusually high critical current in the bulk. In the present paper the magnetic irreversibility line of this material is studied by AC permeability measurements. The irreversibility line is much steeper and is moved to higher temperatures compared to single crystal YBa2Cu3O7 and the reversible region between the irreversibility line and the Hc2 line is drastically shrunk. From standard flux creep analysis the pinning energy is found to be increased by one order of magnitude as compared to YBa2Cu3O7. The measurements further show that the irreversibility temperature increases in a simple logarithmic fashion with increasing frequency. The magnetic AC field response is found to be highly nonlinear even when Bac Bdc∼10-5.
AB - Recent work has shown that the melt-powder-melt-grown (MPMG) high temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7 with Y2BaCuO5 inclusions sustains unusually high critical current in the bulk. In the present paper the magnetic irreversibility line of this material is studied by AC permeability measurements. The irreversibility line is much steeper and is moved to higher temperatures compared to single crystal YBa2Cu3O7 and the reversible region between the irreversibility line and the Hc2 line is drastically shrunk. From standard flux creep analysis the pinning energy is found to be increased by one order of magnitude as compared to YBa2Cu3O7. The measurements further show that the irreversibility temperature increases in a simple logarithmic fashion with increasing frequency. The magnetic AC field response is found to be highly nonlinear even when Bac Bdc∼10-5.
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U2 - 10.1016/0921-4534(91)90220-S
DO - 10.1016/0921-4534(91)90220-S
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0025994576
VL - 172
SP - 495
EP - 500
JO - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
JF - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
SN - 0921-4534
IS - 5-6
ER -