Superconducting and electrical properties of amorphous zirconium-transition metal binary alloys
Superconducting and electrical properties of amorphous zirconium-transition metal binary alloys
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非晶锆-过渡金属二元合金的超导和电学性能
DOI:
10.1007/bf00553260
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发表时间:
1986
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
H. Chen
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作者:
A. Inoue;K. Matsuzaki;T. Masumoto;H. Chen
In order to clarify the compositional effect on the superconductivity of zirconium-transition metal (M) binary amorphous alloys, the superconducting properties and electrical resistance of the alloys were examined as functions of the concentration, group number and periodicity of the M elements.Tcfor Zr75M25alloys rises in the order Ru > Rh > Ir > Co > Os > Ni > Pt > Cu > Pd > Fe > Au, i.e. as the group number decreases when the periodicity belongs to the 5th period, and with decreasing M content for Zr100−XMXalloys. The highTcattained in the present work is 4.55 K for Zr80Rh20, 4.38 K for Zr75Rh25and 4.47 K for Zr75Ru25. The temperature gradient of the upper critical magnetic field (Hc2) near the transition temperature (TC) tends to increase with increasing zirconium content, and the resistive state due to the flux flow phenomena appears in a wide sweeping field. Following the sharp and large decrease of the flux flow resistance due to a peak effect, the resistance recovers sharply nearHc2. The peak effect was found to occur more distinctly for the alloys containing a magnetic element of iron or cobalt, probably because of the suppression of the pair-breaking effect due to magnetic scattering by the application of the high field nearHc2. The dominating factor for the compositional effect onTCis inferred to originate from the variation ofλthroughωfor Zr100−xMXalloys and from that of λ through N(Ef) for Zr75M25alloys. Additionally, it has been found for the Zr-M amorphous alloys that the electrical resistivityρ(T) exhibits a maximum value at temperature ranging from 2TCto 3TC, suggesting that the hump phenomenon in ρ(T) appeared through the generation of the superconducting fluctuations. The temperature coefficient of resistivity (tcr) defined by 1/R250(dR/dT) shows negative values ranging from 1.05×10−4to 1.75×10−4K−1andTCwas found to rise through the increase inλwith the increase in the negative value of the tcr.