Thursday, February 21, 2013

1302.4855 (Yanwei Ma et al.)

Large transport critical currents and magneto-optical imaging of
textured Sr1-xKxFe2As2 superconducting tapes
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Yanwei Ma, Chao Yao, Xianping Zhang, He Lin, Dongliang Wang, A. Matsumoto, H. Kumakura, Y. Tsuchiya, Y. Sun, T. Tamegai
We report the temperature dependence of the transport critical current density (Jc) in textured Sr1-xKxFe2As2/Fe (Sr122) tapes fabricated by an ex situ powder-in-tube process. Critical currents were measured in magnetic fields up to 0-15 T and/or the temperature range 4.2-30 K by using a dc four-probe method. It was found that textured Sr122 tapes heat-treated at low temperatures showed higher transport Jc performance due to much improved intergrain connections. At temperatures of 20 K, easily obtained using a cryocooler, Jc reached ~ 10^4 A/cm^2 in self field, which is the highest transport value of ferropnictide wires and tapes reported so far. Magneto-optical imaging observations further revealed significant and well distributed global Jc at 20 K in our tapes. These results demonstrate that 122 type superconducting tapes are promising for high-field applications at around 20 K.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4855

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