TY - JOUR
T1 - Nanoscale stripe structures in SmBCO superconductors
AU - Koblischka, M. R.
AU - Winter, M.
AU - Hu, A.
AU - Hartmann, U.
AU - Murakami, M.
PY - 2006/6/1
Y1 - 2006/6/1
N2 - AFM and STM scans on SmBa2Cu3Ox (SmBCO) melt processed samples revealed nanoscale stripe-like structures, sometimes parallel over several micrometers, sometimes wavy. These structures consist of chemical compositional fluctuations and act as effective δTc pinning centres due to their wavelength of typically 10-60 nm which is comparable to the ideal pinning center size 2ξ (∼10 nm for YBa 2Cu3Ox in the ab-plane). Compared to similar structures in ternary (Sm, Eu, Gd)Ba2Cu3Ox (SEG) and (Nd, Eu, Gd)Ba2Cu3Ox (NEG) systems, where the stripes appear either as plateau-like stripes or as chains of aligned clusters, the stripes in SmBCO always appear as plateau-like stripes with a height of 1Å-8. These pinning structures throughout the whole sample volume may be a key to improve critical current densities especially at high external magnetic fields.
AB - AFM and STM scans on SmBa2Cu3Ox (SmBCO) melt processed samples revealed nanoscale stripe-like structures, sometimes parallel over several micrometers, sometimes wavy. These structures consist of chemical compositional fluctuations and act as effective δTc pinning centres due to their wavelength of typically 10-60 nm which is comparable to the ideal pinning center size 2ξ (∼10 nm for YBa 2Cu3Ox in the ab-plane). Compared to similar structures in ternary (Sm, Eu, Gd)Ba2Cu3Ox (SEG) and (Nd, Eu, Gd)Ba2Cu3Ox (NEG) systems, where the stripes appear either as plateau-like stripes or as chains of aligned clusters, the stripes in SmBCO always appear as plateau-like stripes with a height of 1Å-8. These pinning structures throughout the whole sample volume may be a key to improve critical current densities especially at high external magnetic fields.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/43/1/084
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/43/1/084
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33746323292
VL - 43
SP - 337
EP - 340
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
SN - 1742-6588
IS - 1
M1 - 084
ER -