TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of the chemical inhomogeneity on the vortex lattice observed by the Bitter decoration technique in high-Tc superconductors
AU - Muraoka, T.
AU - Chikumoto, N.
AU - Machi, T.
AU - Hirabayashi, I.
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.
PY - 2005/10/1
Y1 - 2005/10/1
N2 - We have performed local magnetization measurements on Bi 2SrCa2Cu2O8+y (Bi2212) single crystals grown by TSFZ method using Bitter decoration technique and MO imaging technique, which provides information of static vortex structures at the surface of superconductors. MO image revealed the presence of micron-scale inhomogeneities of critical currents, which is ascribed to the chemical fluctuation as analyzed by WDS. We could successfully observe nanometer-scale line defects with Bitter decoration technique performed at 65 K. The observed structure was largely disordered, presumably due to thermally activated motion during the decoration.
AB - We have performed local magnetization measurements on Bi 2SrCa2Cu2O8+y (Bi2212) single crystals grown by TSFZ method using Bitter decoration technique and MO imaging technique, which provides information of static vortex structures at the surface of superconductors. MO image revealed the presence of micron-scale inhomogeneities of critical currents, which is ascribed to the chemical fluctuation as analyzed by WDS. We could successfully observe nanometer-scale line defects with Bitter decoration technique performed at 65 K. The observed structure was largely disordered, presumably due to thermally activated motion during the decoration.
KW - Bi2212
KW - Bitter decoration
KW - Chemical inhomogeneity
KW - Magneto-optical imaging
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physc.2005.03.082
DO - 10.1016/j.physc.2005.03.082
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:25644459967
SN - 0921-4534
VL - 426-431
SP - 88
EP - 93
JO - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
JF - Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
IS - I
T2 - Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS 2004) Advances in Supeconductivity
Y2 - 23 November 2004 through 25 November 2004
ER -