Published September 24, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Magnetic relaxation and lower critical field in MgB2 wires

  • 1. Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research, PO Box 51, Xi'an 710016 (China)
  • 2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 (Australia)
  • 3. Jesse W Beams Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 (United States)

Description

Magnetic relaxation behaviour, critical current density Jc and lower critical field Hc1 have been investigated in MgB2/Ta/Cu wires. It is found that Jc and Hc1 decrease linearly with temperature in the whole temperature region below Tc. The relaxation rate is very small and has a weak temperature dependence compared to high-Tc superconductors. Also, the pinning potential is much larger and the temperature and field dependences of the pinning potential are briefly discussed

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0953-8984/15/6395/cm3_37_007.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter (ISSN 1361-648X) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
15
Journal Issue
37
Journal Page Range
p. 6395-6402
ISSN
0953-8984
CODEN
JCOMEL