Evidence for superior current carrying capability of iron pnictide tapes under hydrostatic pressure
Evidence for superior current carrying capability of iron pnictide tapes under hydrostatic pressure
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevmaterials.1.044805
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发表时间:
2017-09
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Babar Shabbir;He Huang;C. Yao;Yanwei Ma;S. Dou;T. Johansen;H. Hosono;Xiaolin Wang
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作者:
Babar Shabbir;He Huang;C. Yao;Yanwei Ma;S. Dou;T. Johansen;H. Hosono;Xiaolin Wang
High critical current densityvalues in superconducting wires/tapes are desirable for high magnetic field applications. Recently developed pnictide wires/tapes exhibit exceptional superconducting properties such as high critical temperature, upper critical field, and almost field-independent. Despite the great fabrication efforts, however, the newly discovered pnictide wires/tapes are still not able to replace low-temperature superconductors such as, due to their inferiorvalues. Ag-cladtapes have demonstrated significant superconducting performance, although their lowin comparison tois still a major challenge. By successfully employing hydrostatic pressure, a remarkably significant enhancement ofby an order of magnitude can be achieved intapes in both low and high fields. This is a promising technological step forward towards high-field applications, as the record highvaluesat 4.2 K and 13 T,obtained fortape are superior to those ofand other pnictide wires/tapes. Here, we used magneticdata for comparison to the other reported transportdata, due to the lack of transport measurement facility under hydrostatic pressure. Our systematic analysis shows that pressure-induced pinning centers are the main source ofenhancement, along with a fractional contribution from geometric changes around the grain boundaries under pressure. We expect that utilization of an appropriate pressure approach will be a way to significantly enhanceto beyond the cutoff (maximum) values in various superconductors produced using other existing methods forenhancement.