Published October 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Magnetic Pinning Properties and Flux Jumps in Superconducting MgB2

  • 1. Dept. of Physics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)

Description

Magnetization studies have been carried out on MgB2 polycrystalline samples in the temperature range of 5 - 44 K and in the magnetic field up to 7 Tesla. The critical current density was calculated from hysteresis loops using the Bean's critical state model, and the highest value of Jc at 20 K was 2.7 x 105 A/cm2 at 2 Tesla. The hysteresis loops were carefully examined to determine the temperature and magnetic field range where flux jumps appeared. The first jump occurred typically at 1 Tesla. Due to the strong pinning, we observed the presence of flux jump below H = 1 Tesla at temperature below 30 K.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Progress in Superconductivity
Journal Volume
9
Journal Issue
1
Series
15 refs, 7 figs
Journal Page Range
p. 11-17
ISSN
1229-4764