TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterization of Electrospun Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Nanowires with Reduced Preparation Temperature
AU - Zeng, Xian Lin
AU - Koblischka, Michael R.
AU - Laurent, Fabian
AU - Karwoth, Thomas
AU - Koblischka-Veneva, Anjela
AU - Hartmann, Uwe
AU - Chang, Crosby
AU - Kumar, Praveen
AU - Eibl, Oliver
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received September 18, 2017; accepted April 19, 2018. Date of publication April 26, 2018; date of current version May 15, 2018. This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) project Ko2323/8. (Corresponding author: Michael R. Koblischka.) X.-L. Zeng, M. R. Koblischka, F. Laurent, T. Karwoth, A. Koblischka-Veneva, and U. Hartmann are with the Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany (e-mail:,m.koblischka@mx. uni-saarland.de).
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PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ (Bi-2212) nanowires were fabricated employing electrospinning. A subsequent thermal treatment based on thermal gravity analysis is required to obtain the final crystal structure and superconductivity; however, if this preparation temperature is too high, the nanowire structure may completely collapse during the treatment, which is even more pronounced when aligning the nanowires. Therefore, Li acetate was added in various amounts to the starting composition, which enabled to produce the desired Bi-2212 phase already at about 750 °C instead of 840 °C. An X-ray and a TEM analysis proved that the resulting nanowires were single-phase Bi-2212. After the electro-spinning process, the resulting samples form fabric-like networks, and in the heat treatment, the nanowire structure was found to survive. The nanowires exhibited a polycrystalline structure with grain sizes of 20-50 nm, an average wire diameter of ∼100 nm, and a length of up to several micrometers. The resulting nanowire network samples were characterized by magnetic measurements and electric transport measurements in fields up to 9 and 4 T, respecitively.
AB - Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ (Bi-2212) nanowires were fabricated employing electrospinning. A subsequent thermal treatment based on thermal gravity analysis is required to obtain the final crystal structure and superconductivity; however, if this preparation temperature is too high, the nanowire structure may completely collapse during the treatment, which is even more pronounced when aligning the nanowires. Therefore, Li acetate was added in various amounts to the starting composition, which enabled to produce the desired Bi-2212 phase already at about 750 °C instead of 840 °C. An X-ray and a TEM analysis proved that the resulting nanowires were single-phase Bi-2212. After the electro-spinning process, the resulting samples form fabric-like networks, and in the heat treatment, the nanowire structure was found to survive. The nanowires exhibited a polycrystalline structure with grain sizes of 20-50 nm, an average wire diameter of ∼100 nm, and a length of up to several micrometers. The resulting nanowire network samples were characterized by magnetic measurements and electric transport measurements in fields up to 9 and 4 T, respecitively.
KW - Bi-2212
KW - Li-doping
KW - U(I) characteristics
KW - electrospinning
KW - magnetic moments
KW - microstructure
KW - nanowires
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2018.2830392
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2018.2830392
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045967439
VL - 28
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
SN - 1051-8223
IS - 4
M1 - 7200505
ER -