Anisotropic Connectivity and its Influence on Critical Current Densities, Irreversibility Fields, and Flux Creep in In-Situ-Processed MgB2 Strands

Details Anisotropic Connectivity and its Influence on Critical Current Densities, Irreversibility Fields, and Flux Creep in In-Situ-Processed MgB2 Strands Anisotropic Connectivity and its Influence on Critical Current Densities, Irreversibility Fields, and Flux Creep in In-Situ-Processed MgB2 Strands

2010-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/1001.1030v1

Supercond. Sci. Technol. 23 (2010) 045018

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

43 Pages, 11 Figures, accepted by Supercon. Sci. Tech

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The anisotropy of the critical current density (Jc) and its influence on measurement of irreversibility field (Birr) has been investigated for high quality, in-situ MgB2 strands. Comparison of transport and magnetization measurements has revealed the onset of a regime where large differences exist between transport and magnetically measured values of the critical current density and Birr. These effects, initially unexpected due to the lack of crystalline texture in these in-situ processed strands, appear to be due to a fibrous microstructure, connected with the details of the wire fabrication and MgB2 formation reactions. Scanning electron micrographs of in-situ-processed MgB2 monocore strands have revealed a fibrous microstructure. Grains (~100 nm) are randomly oriented, and there is no apparent local texture of the grains. However, this randomly oriented polycrystalline material has a fibrous texture at a larger length scale, with stringers of MgB2 (~ 60 {\mu}m long and ~5 {\mu}m in diameter) partially separated by elongated pores -- the spaces previously occupied by stringers of elemental Mg. This leads to an interpretation of the differences observed in transport and magnetically determined critical currents, in particular a large deviation between the two at higher fields, in terms of different transverse and longitudinal connectivities within the strand. The different values of connectivity also lead to different resistive transition widths, and thus irreversibility field values, as measured by transport and magnetic techniques. Finally, these considerations are seen to influence estimated pinning potentials for the strands.

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