Improvement of the intergranular pinning energy in uniaxially compacting (Bi-Pb) 2 Sr 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O 10+δ ceramic samples

E. Govea-Alcaide (), I. García-Fornaris, P. Muné and R. F. Jardim

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2007, vol. 58, issue 4, 373-378

Abstract: Measurements of the electrical resistivity as a function of temperature, ρ(T), for different values of applied magnetic field, B a (0 ≤ B a ≤ 50 mT), were performed in polycrystalline samples of Bi 1.65 Pb 0.35 Sr 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O 10+δ subjected to different uniaxial compacting pressure (UCP). We have found appreciable differences in the grain orientation between samples by using X-ray diffractometry. From the X-ray diffraction patterns performed, in powder and pellet samples, we have estimated the Lotgering factor along the (00l) direction, F (00l) . The results indicate that F (00l) increases ~23% with increasing UCP suggesting that grains of these samples are preferentially aligned along the c-axis, which is parallel to the compacting direction. The resistive transition of the samples have been interpreted in terms of the thermally activated flux-creep model. In addition, the effective intergranular pinning energy, U 0 , have been determined for different applied magnetic field. The magnetic field dependence of U 0 , for B a > 8 mT, was found to follow a H - α dependence with α = 0.5 for all samples. The analysis of the experimental data strongly suggested that increasing UCP results in appreciable changes in both the grain alignment and the grain connectivity of the samples. We have successfully interpreted the data by considering the existence of three different superconducting levels within the samples: the superconducting grains, the weak-links, and the superconducting clusters. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2007

Keywords: 74.72.Hs Bi-based cuprates; 74.81.Bd Granular; melt-textured; amorphous and composite superconductors; 74.25.Fy Transport properties (electric and thermal conductivity; thermoelectric effects; etc.); 74.25.Qt Vortex lattices; flux pinning; flux creep (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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