scholarly journals Superconductivity in an Inhomogeneous Bundle of Metallic and Semiconducting Nanotubes

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ilya Grigorenko ◽  
Anvar Zakhidov

Using Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism for inhomogeneous systems, we have studied superconducting properties of a bundle of packed carbon nanotubes, making a triangular lattice in the bundle's transverse cross-section. The bundle consists of a mixture of metallic and doped semiconducting nanotubes, which have different critical transition temperatures. We investigate how a spatially averaged superconducting order parameter and the critical transition temperature depend on the fraction of the doped semiconducting carbon nanotubes in the bundle. Our simulations suggest that the superconductivity in the bundle will be suppressed when the fraction of the doped semiconducting carbon nanotubes will be less than 0.5, which is the percolation threshold for a two-dimensional triangular lattice.

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (26) ◽  
pp. 1650328
Author(s):  
Yan Dong ◽  
Aimin Sun ◽  
Bin Xu ◽  
Hongtao Zhang ◽  
Meng Zhang

In this paper, the effect of tiny Y2O3 addition in (Bi,[Formula: see text]Pb)-2223 superconductor prepared by solid state reaction technique was studied. The properties of samples have been investigated via X-ray diffraction (XRD), resistance–temperature ([Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text]) curve, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). XRD data indicated that all samples are multiphase and the major phases are high-temperature phases and low-temperature phases. The volume fraction of (Bi,[Formula: see text]Pb)-2223 is not great change with tiny Y2O3 addition. All samples exhibit superconducting phase with the critical transition temperature and one-step transition, however, the transition width was decreased with the Y2O3 addition up to 0.04 wt.% and sharp increased with the excessive oxide addition. SEM pictures show that the Y2O3 appeared on the flake-type grains surface obviously, but the number and size of the hole between grains are decreased in the 0.04 wt.% addition.


2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1372-1375 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.P. Roeser ◽  
F. Hetfleisch ◽  
F.M. Huber ◽  
M.F. von Schoenermark ◽  
M. Stepper ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 3363-3369 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.V. Varanasi ◽  
J. Burke ◽  
L. Brunke ◽  
H. Wang ◽  
J.H. Lee ◽  
...  

Previous work on YBa2Cu3O7−x (YBCO) + BaSnO3 (BSO) films with a single composition showed significant critical current density (Jc) improvements at higher fields but lowered Jc in low fields. A detailed study on BSO concentrations provided here demonstrates that significant Jc enhancement can occur even up to 20 mol% BSO inclusion, where typical particulate inclusions in these concentrations degrade the YBCO performance. YBCO + BSO films were processed on (100) LaAlO3 substrates using premixed targets of YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) with additions of 2, 4, 10, and 20 mol% BSO. The critical transition temperature Tc of the films remained high (>87 K), even with large amounts (20 mol%) of BSO. YBCO + BSO films showed a gradual increase in Jc at high fields as the amount of BSO was increased. More than an order of magnitude increase in Jc was measured in YBCO + BSO samples as compared to regular YBCO at 4 T. YBCO + 10 mol% BSO films showed overall improvement at all the field ranges while YBCO + 20 mol% BSO was better only at high fields. Transmission electron microscopy revealed the presence of ∼7–8-nm-diameter BSO nanocolumns, the density of which increased with increasing BSO content correlating well with the observed improvements in Jc.


2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ferrier ◽  
A. Kasumov ◽  
R. Deblock ◽  
S. Guéron ◽  
H. Bouchiat

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navdeep Singh ◽  
Gagan Deep Aul

: Radar is a delicate detection device and since its evolution different techniques for reducing electromagnetic reflections have been discovered. This paper provide concise review on fundamentals of absorption which reduces radar cross section from stealth target with which radar cross section has effects to survivability and mission capability. The reduction of radar cross section depend on dielectric and magnetic properties of material. The first section reviews the Radar Absorbing Material (RAM) in order to provide a background on fundamentals, various stealth techniques for absorption and its properties at microwave frequencies. The second section reviews the Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and its different composites by encapsulation of other metals, polymers or epoxies into it and its microwave absorption properties were studies at microwave frequencies. Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes based composites for microwave absorption are reviewed on the basis of various factors; material composition, reflection loss performance, thickness, complex permittivity, complex permeability, dielectric tangent loss, magnetic tangent loss, bandwidth, and frequency band.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 107-113
Author(s):  
Charles Nnamdi Udekwe ◽  
Akinlolu Adediran Ponnle

The geometry of the imaged transverse cross-section of carotid arteries in in-vivo B-mode ultrasound images are most times irregular, unsymmetrical, full of speckles and usually non-uniform. We had earlier developed a technique of cardinal point symmetry landmark distribution model (CPS-LDM) to completely characterize the Region of Interest (ROI) of the geometric shape of thick-walled simulated B-mode ultrasound images of carotid artery imaged in the transverse plane, but this was based on the symmetric property of the image. In this paper, this developed technique was applied to completely characterize the region of interest of the geometric shape of in-vivo B-mode ultrasound images of non-uniform carotid artery imaged in the transverse plane. In order to adapt the CPS-LD Model to the in-vivo carotid artery images, the single VS-VS vertical symmetry line common to the four ROIs of the symmetric image is replaced with each ROI having its own VS-VS vertical symmetry line. This adjustment enables the in-vivo carotid artery images possess symmetric properties, hence, ensuring that all mathematical operations of the CPS-LD Model are conveniently applied to them. This adaptability was observed to work well in segmenting the in-vivo carotid artery images. This paper shows the adaptive ability of the developed CPS-LD Model to successfully annotate and segment in-vivo B-mode ultrasound images of carotid arteries in the transverse cross-sectional plane either they are symmetrical or unsymmetrical.


2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 241-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. CALEGARI ◽  
S. G. MAGALHÃES ◽  
A. A. GOMES

In this work the variational Roth's approach previously developed by the present authors to describe cuprate systems is extended to include the superconducting properties. We extend the Beenen and Edwards approach by including the d–p hybridization. The role of the d–p hybridization in modifying the values of superconducting order parameter is then studied in terms of the adopted values of the parameters defining the Hamiltonian of the system.


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