Flux Pinning and Weak Link Structure in Ca2Cu1O3 Doped LnBa2Cu3O7-y (Ln=La and Y)

1989 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Mizuno ◽  
H. Masuda ◽  
I. Hirabayashi ◽  
S. Tanaka

AbstractFlux pinning and weak link structure were studied on the effect of Ca doping in LnBa2Cu3O7-y system (Ln=La and Y). The magnitude and the magnetic field dependence of the critical current density were improved by Ca doping. A small amount of impurity phase of such as Ca2Cu1O3 may work as a desirable flux pinning center. Moreover, it was found that the current-temperature characteristics for Ca-doped samples showed the evidence of two kinds of superconducting phases which have different transition temperature Tc and Tc'. The experimental result agrees well with the Ambegaokar-Baratoff theory for asymmetric Josephson junctions (S-I-S') in the temperature range of T < Tc' and with the proximity junction theory (S-N-S) in the range of Tc'<T<Tc.

1992 ◽  
Vol 06 (03) ◽  
pp. 161-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.I. KUGEL ◽  
T. YU. LISOVSKAYA ◽  
R.G. MINTS

We study the dependence of critical current j c on magnetic field H in superconducting polycrystals which are considered as systems of superconducting crystallites (isotropic or anisotropic) with Josephson contacts between them. Isotropy or anisotropy of contacts depends on the orientation of their crystallographic axes relatively to edges of contact planes. It is shown that for a system of randomly oriented isotropic contacts, the dependence j c (H) in a relatively wide field range has the asymptotic form j c ~( ln H)/H2. This differs drastically from j c (H) for single contacts. Anisotropy effects due to large differences in London penetration depth λ values corresponding to external magnetic field directed along different axes are analyzed in detail. It is shown that for uniaxal crystals with λ1=λ2≪λ3, this anisotropy leads to the relation [Formula: see text] for chaotic orientation of crystallites. The form of j c (H) curves for two different orientations of the magnetic field relatively to the transport current through the sample is found.


1996 ◽  
Vol 46 (S3) ◽  
pp. 1213-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Hargreaves ◽  
J. Akimitsu ◽  
D. F. Brewer ◽  
N. E. Hussey ◽  
H. Noma ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 1201-1205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaharu Okazaki ◽  
Kazumi Toriyama ◽  
Kiichi Oda ◽  
Toshio Kasai

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