Flux-pinning mechanism of proximity-coupled planar defects in conventional superconductors: Evidence that magnetic pinning is the dominant pinning mechanism in niobium-titanium alloy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 6638-6652

  Cooley, L ^a   Lee, P ^b   Larbalestier, D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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EID: 0000057335     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.6638     Document Type: Article

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