Local threshold field for dendritic instability in superconducting MgB2 films

Details Local threshold field for dendritic instability in superconducting MgB2 films Local threshold field for dendritic instability in superconducting MgB2 films

2002-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0205361v2

Phys. Rev. B 67, 064513 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.67.064513

Using magneto-optical imaging the phenomenon of dendritic flux penetration in superconducting films was studied. Flux dendrites were abruptly formed in a 300 nm thick film of MgB2 by applying a perpendicular magnetic field. Detailed measurements of flux density distributions show that there exists a local threshold field controlling the nucleation and termination of the dendritic growth. At 4 K the local threshold field is close to 12 mT in this sample, where the critical current density is 10^7 A/cm^2. The dendritic instability in thin films is believed to be of thermo-magnetic origin, but the existence of a local threshold field, and its small value are features that distinctly contrast the thermo-magnetic instability (flux jumps) in bulk superconductors.

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