Quantitative description of a very high critical current density Nb-Ti superconductor during its final optimization strain. II: Flux pinning mechanisms
Quantitative description of a very high critical current density Nb-Ti superconductor during its final optimization strain. II: Flux pinning mechanisms
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对最终优化应变期间极高临界电流密度 Nb-Ti 超导体的定量描述。
DOI:
10.1063/1.343625
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
D. Larbalestier
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作者:
C. Meingast;D. Larbalestier
Flux pinning by α‐Ti precipitates has been studied in a carefully made Nb 48 wt. % Ti composite having very high critical current density and a macroscopically rather uniform precipitate array. The pinning was studied as a function of field (0–15 T) and temperature (2.3 K—Tc) for a ratio of the precipitate thickness (tppt) and the coherence length (ξ) which was varied between 10 and 0.1 by a large drawing strain. Surprisingly, the maximum bulk pinning force (Fp) occurred for tppt/2ξ≂0.1 and a precipitate spacing about one‐eighth the fluxon spacing, suggesting that the flux pinning occurs at clusters of precipitates. In contrast to earlier studies, strict temperature scaling of Fp was not observed; the peak of the pinning force shifted to lower reduced fields as the temperature increased. The effect was largest for the finest scale microstructure. This nonscaling is interpreted in terms of two pinning mechanisms having different field and temperature dependencies. At low reduced fields, and at temperatures...