Transport Critical Current and Magnetization Measurements of Melt-Processed YBa2Cu3O7-X

A. H. Hermann; Z. Z. Sheng; W. Kiehl; D. Marsh; A. Elali; Paul D. Hambourger; C. Almasan; J. Estrada; T. Datta

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Transport Critical Current and Magnetization Measurements of Melt-Processed YBa2Cu3O7-X

A. H. Hermann, Z. Z. Sheng, W. Kiehl, D. Marsh, A. Elali, Paul D. Hambourger, C. Almasan, J. Estrada, T. Datta

University of South Carolina - Columbia

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We report magnetic field dependence of the transport critical current and dc magnetic susceptibility measurements on YBa2Cu3O7−x superconductors formed by melt-solid reactions at 950 °C between Ba-Cu-O (or Tb-Ba-Cu-O) and solid nonstoichiometric Y-Ba-Cu-oxide. Four-probe dc critical current measurements at 77, 64, and 4.2 K show strong depression of the critical current density with increasing magnetic field in agreement with a model of weakly linked superconducting regions. Diamagnetic shielding and Meissner flux expulsion measurements in the temperature range 10–300 K show about one third volume fraction of perfect superconductivity. Both shielding and flux expulsion were observed to be approximately temperature independent below 60 K indicating strong coupling between the grains throughout the entire volume below this temperature.

Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	64
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.342459
State	Published - Nov 15 1988

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