Flux Pinning in Melt-Grown NdBa2Cu3Oy and SmBa2Cu3Oy Superconductors
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 33 (5B) , L715
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.33.l715
Abstract
REBa2Cu3Oy superconductors with rare earth (RE) ions with large radii (RE: La, Nd, Sm) exhibit relatively low T c due to the presence of RE-Ba solid solution. We have found that this solid solution can be suppressed if these superconductors are melt processed in a reduced oxygen atmosphere. We have also found that critical current densities of these superconductors are higher than those of melt processed YBa2Cu3Oy with fine Y2BaCuO5 inclusions in a high field region. The irreversibility line was also shifted toward the higher H-T region. We believe that flux pinning in these superconductors is ascribable to a finely distributed RE(Ba1-x , REx )2Cu3Oy phase in a good superconductive matrix.Keywords
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