Published October 1, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Superconducting properties and microstructure of PLD-ErBa2Cu3O7-δ film with BaNb2O6

  • 1. CREST JST, Honmachi 4-1-8, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012 (Japan)
  • 2. Mukaida Laboratory, Department of Material Physics and Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 819-0395 (Japan)
  • 3. University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8685 (Japan)
  • 4. CRIEPI, 2-6-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 240-0196 (Japan)
  • 5. Shizuoka University, Johoku 3-5-1, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8651 (Japan)
  • 6. Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8510 (Japan)
  • 7. Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603 (Japan)

Description

We report superconducting properties and microstructures of a ErBa2Cu3O7-δ (ErBCO) film with 1.5 wt% BaNb2O6 (BNO) grown by pulse laser deposition (PLD) on a SrTiO3 (STO) substrate. The BNO was introduced into the ErBCO film as an artificial pinning center. Nano-rods originated in the BNO-doping and some particulate defects were clearly observed in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of the ErBCO film. The ErBCO film with BNO-doping (BNO + ErBCO) had almost the same critical temperature (TC) as that of a pure ErBCO film. On the other hand, the BNO + ErBCO film showed less critical current density (JC) than that of the pure ErBCO film. The angular peaks for H-parallel c-axis on JC-B-θ curves were not confirmed under all the measured external magnetic fields. X-ray diffraction analysis indicated the high orientation to the both c-axis and in-plane for the obtained film. However, the low surface flatness was confirmed by the TEM and atomic force microscopy (AFM) observation

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physc.2007.04.273

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physc.2007.04.273;
PII
S0921-4534(07)00928-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica. C, Superconductivity
Journal Volume
463-465
Journal Page Range
p. 895-899
ISSN
0921-4534
CODEN
PHYCE6

Conference

Title
19. international symposium on superconductivity
Acronym
ISS 2006
Dates
30 Oct - 1 Nov 2006
Place
Nagoya (Japan)

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