Angular dependence of the bulk nucleation field Hc2 of aligned MgB2 crystallites

Details Angular dependence of the bulk nucleation field Hc2 of aligned MgB2 crystallites Angular dependence of the bulk nucleation field Hc2 of aligned MgB2 crystallites

2001-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0105332v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

10 pages + 4 Figs.; Revised version accepted in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.64.144517

Studies on the new MgB2 superconductor, with a critical temperature Tc ~ 39 K, have evidenced its potential for applications although intense magnetic relaxation effects limit the critical current density, Jc, at high magnetic fields. This means that effective pinning centers must be added into the material microstructure, in order to halt dissipative flux movements. Concerning the basic microscopic mechanism to explain the superconductivity in MgB2, several experimental and theoretical works have pointed to the relevance of a phonon-mediated interaction, in the framework of the BCS theory. Questions have been raised about the relevant phonon modes, and the gap and Fermi surface anisotropies, in an effort to interpret spectroscopic and thermal data that give values between 2.4 and 4.5 for the gap energy ratio. Preliminary results on the anisotropy of Hc2 have shown a ratio, between the in-plane and perpendicular directions, around 1.7 for aligned MgB2 crystallites and 1.8 for epitaxial thin films. Here we show a study on the angular dependence of Hc2 pointing to a Fermi velocity anisotropy around 2.5. This anisotropy certainly implies the use of texturization techniques to optimize Jc in MgB2 wires and other polycrystalline components.

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