Upper critical field, irreversibility field, and critical current density of powder-in-tube-processed MgB2/Fe tapes
Upper critical field, irreversibility field, and critical current density of powder-in-tube-processed MgB2/Fe tapes
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DOI:
10.1088/0953-2048/18/8/003
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发表时间:
2005-08
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
H. Kumakura;H. Kitaguchi;A. Matsumoto;H. Yamada
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作者:
H. Kumakura;H. Kitaguchi;A. Matsumoto;H. Yamada
We fabricated pure and SiC-added MgB2/Fe composite tapes using a MgH2 starting powder and applying heat treatments at 600–900 °C and systematically investigated their superconducting properties. For both the pure and SiC-added tapes, the critical temperature (Tc) increased with increasing heat-treatment temperature due to the improved crystallinity of MgB2.The SiC addition decreased the Tc but increased the slope of the Bc2–T and Birr–T curves, d Bc2/d T and d Birr/d T, for all heat-treatment temperatures. The d Bc2/d T and d Birr/d T of the pure tape decreased with increasing heat-treatment temperature from 600 to 700 °C because of the longer coherence length associated with the improved crystallinity. However, the SiC addition significantly decreased the heat-treatment temperature dependences of d Bc2/d T and d Birr/d T. At a temperature of ∼20 K, which is easily obtained using a cryocooler, the Birr is governed by both the Tc and d Birr/d T. The Birr of a pure tape at 20 K decreased with increasing heat-treatment temperature from 600 to 700 °C, but the Birr of the 10 mol% SiC-added tape increased with the temperature. These behaviours can be explained by the heat-treatment temperature dependence of the Tc and d Birr/d T. At 20 K the highest Birr of 10 T was obtained under the conditions of a 10 mol% SiC addition and heat-treatment temperature of 900 °C. This Birr at 20 K is comparable to that of commercial Nb–Ti at 4.2 K. The 10 mol% SiC-added tape heat treated at 900 °C and the 5 at.% SiC-added tape heat treated at 800 °C showed Jc (MgB2 core) values higher than 104 A cm−2 at 20 K in 5 T.