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Artificial pinning centres in jelly-roll processed niobium-copper composites.

Author(s) : KITAI T., HIGUCHI M., OSAMURA K.

Type of article: Article

Summary

In order to clarify the mechanism concerning the enhancement of critical-current density due to artificial pinning centres, nanometer scale niobium-copper multilayer composites have been prepared from niobium and copper foils by the jelly-roll process. The layer thickness of the specimen was chosen using a calculation based on the phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory. The microstructure of the composite was investigated by scanning electron microscopy. The critical-current density and critical temperature were measured at various magnetic fields. A remarkable increase in the critical-current density was found when the layer thickness was approximately the same scale as the vortex lattice parameter. However, samples with thinner layers showed lower critical-temperature values due to the proximity effect.

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  • Original title: Artificial pinning centres in jelly-roll processed niobium-copper composites.
  • Record ID : 1998-1477
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Cryogenics - vol. 37 - n. 7
  • Publication date: 1997/07

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