Mechanisms for enhanced supercurrent across meandered grain boundaries in high-temperature superconductors

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作者：
Feldmann, D. M.
Holesinger, T. G.
Feenstra, R.
Cantoni, C.
Zhang, W.
Rupich, M.
Li, X.
Durrell, J. H.
Gurevich, A.
Larbalestier, D. C.
机构：
[1] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[3] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[4] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, England
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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS | 2007年 / 102卷 / 08期
基金：
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
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D O I：
10.1063/1.2800255
中图分类号：
O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要：
It has been well established that the critical current density J(c) across grain boundaries (GBs) in high-temperature superconductors decreases exponentially with misorientation angle theta beyond similar to 2 degrees-3 degrees. This rapid decrease is due to a suppression of the superconducting order parameter at the grain boundary, giving rise to weakly pinned Abrikosov-Josephson (AJ) vortices. Here we show that if the GB plane meanders, this exponential dependence no longer holds, permitting greatly enhanced Jc values: up to six times at 0 T and four times at 1 T at theta similar to 4 degrees-6 degrees. This enhancement is due to an increase in the current-carrying cross section of the GBs and the appearance of short AJ vortex segments in the GB plane, confined by the interaction with strongly pinned Abrikosov (A) vortices in the grains. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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