Nanoscale-SiC doping for enhancing Jc and Hc2 in superconducting MgB2

By Shixue Dou, V. Braccini, S. Soltanian, R. Klie, Y. Zhu, S. Li, X. Wang, D. Larbalestier. 2003

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The effect of nanoscale-SiC doping of MgB2 was investigated in comparison with undoped, clean-limit, and Mg-vapor-exposed samples using transport and magnetic measurements. It was found that there are two distinguishable but related mechanisms that control the critical current-density-field Jc(H) behavior: increase of upper critical field Hc2 and improvement of flux pinning. There is a clear correlation between the critical temperature Tc, the resistivity ρ, the residual resistivity ratio RRR=R(300K)∕R(40K), the irreversibility field H*, and the alloying state in the samples. The Hc2 is about the same within the measured field range for both the Mg-vapor-treated and the SiC-doped samples. However, the Jc(H) for the latter is higher than the former in a high-field regime by an order of magnitude. Mg vapor treatment induced intrinsic scattering and contributed to an increase in Hc2. SiC doping, on the other hand, introduced many nanoscale precipitates and disorder at B and Mg sites, provoking an increase of...

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics

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