Imaging ac losses in superconducting films via scanning Hall probe microscopy

Details Imaging ac losses in superconducting films via scanning Hall probe microscopy Imaging ac losses in superconducting films via scanning Hall probe microscopy

2006-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611706v2

Physical Review B, 75, 144503 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

13 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to Physical Review B. Movies and higher resolution figures at http://www.stanford.edu/group/mol

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.75.144503

Various local probes have been applied to understanding current flow through superconducting films, which are often surprisingly inhomogeneous. Here we show that magnetic imaging allows quantitative reconstruction of both current density, J, and electric field, E, resolved in time and space, in a film carrying subcritical ac current. Current reconstruction entails inversion of the Biot-Savart law, while electric fields are reconstructed using Faraday's law. We describe the corresponding numerical procedures, largely adapting existing work to the case of a strip carrying ac current, but including new methods of obtaining the complete electric field from the inductive portion determined by Faraday's law. We also delineate the physical requirements behind the mathematical transformations. We then apply the procedures to images of a strip of YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) carrying an ac current at 400 Hz. Our scanning Hall probe microscope produces a time-series of magnetic images of the strip with 1 micron spatial resolution and 25 microsecond time resolution. Combining the reconstructed J and E, we obtain a complete characterization including local critical current density, E-J curves, and power losses. This analysis has a range of applications from fundamental studies of vortex dynamics to practical coated conductor development.

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