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Fabrication of high performance MgB2 wires by an internal Mg diffusion process
We succeeded in the fabrication of high-Jc MgB2/Fe wires applying the
internal Mg diffusion (IMD) process with pure Mg core and SiC addition. A pure
Mg rod with 2 mm diameter was placed at the center of a Fe tube, and the space
between Mg and Fe tube was filled with B powder or the powder mixture of
B-(5mol%)SiC. The composite was cold worked into 1.2mm diameter wire and
finally heat treated at temperatures above the melting point of Mg(~650oC).
During the heat treatment liquid Mg infiltrated into B layer and reacted with B
to form MgB2. X-ray diffraction analysis indicated that the major phase in the
reacted layer is MgB2. SEM analysis shows that the density of MgB2 layer is
higher than that of usual powder-in-tube(PIT) processed wires. The wires with
5mol% SiC addition heat treated at 670oC showed Jc values higher than 105A/cm2
in 8T and 41,000A/cm2 in 10T at 4.2K. These values are much higher than those
of usual PIT processed wires even compared to the ones with SiC addition.
Higher density of MgB2 layer obtained by the diffusion reaction is the major
cause of this excellent Jc values.Comment: 7page, 6figure
A Penetration Depth Study on Li2Pd3B and Li2Pt3B
In this paper we present a penetration depth study on the newly discovered
superconductors LiPdB and LiPtB. Surprisingly, the
low-temperature penetration depth demonstrates distinct behavior in
these two isostructural compounds. In LiPdB, follows an
exponential decay and can be nicely fitted by a two-gap BCS superconducting
model with a small gap K and a large gap K.
However, linear temperature dependence of is observed in LiPtB
below 0.3, giving evidence of line nodes in the energy gap.Comment: 2 pages, submitted to LT2
High transport critical current density obtained for Powder-In-Tube-processed MgB2 tapes and wires using stainless steel and Cu-Ni tubes
MgB2 tapes and wires were fabricated by the Powder-In-Tube method. Stainless
steel and Cu-Ni tubes were used as sheath materials, and no heat treatment was
applied. The tapes made of stainless steel showed transport critical current
density Jc of about 10,000A/cm2 at 4.2K and 5T. A high Jc of about 300,000A/cm2
was obtained by extrapolating the Jc-B curves to zero field.
Multifilamentary(7-core) MgB2 wire was successfully fabricated using Cu-Ni
tubes. For both tapes and wires the grain connectivity of MgB2 was as good as a
high-pressure sintered bulk sample. However, the Jc of the Cu-Ni sheathed wire
was lower than the stainless steel sheathed tape due to the lower packing
density of MgB2.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Magnetization measurements on Li2Pd3B superconductor
Magnetization in DC magnetic fields and at different temperatures have been
measured on the Li2Pd3B compound. This material was recently found to show
superconductivity at 7-8K. Critical fields Hc1(0) and Hc2(0) have been
determined to be 135Oe and 4T, respectively. Critical current density, scaling
of the pinning force within the Kramer model and the irreversibility field data
are presented. Several superconductivity parameters were deduced: x(csi)=9.1
nm, l(lamda)=194nm and k=21. The material resembles other boride
superconductors from the investigated points of view.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
S-wave/spin-triplet order in superconductors without inversion symmetry: LiPdB and LiPtB
We investigate the order parameter of noncentrosymmetric superconductors
LiPdB and LiPtB via the behavior of the penetration depth
. The low-temperature penetration depth shows BCS-like behavior in
LiPdB, while in LiPtB it follows a linear temperature
dependence. We propose that broken inversion symmetry and the accompanying
antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling, which admix spin-singlet and spin-triplet
pairing, are responsible for this behavior. The triplet contribution is weak in
LiPdB, leading to a wholly open but anisotropic gap. The significantly
larger spin-orbit coupling in LiPtB allows the spin-triplet component
to be larger in LiPtB, producing line nodes in the energy gap as
evidenced by the linear temperature dependence of . The
experimental data are in quantitative agreement with theory.Comment: Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press). More details are include
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