The pinning strength and upper critical fields of magnetic and nonmagnetic artificial pinning centers in Nb47w/oTi wires

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 III, 2003, Pages 3351-3354

  Motowidlo, Leszek R ^a   Rudziak, Mark K ^a   Wong, Terence ^a  

^a Supercon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial pinning center; Critical current; Flux pinning; Nb Ti wire; Proximity effect; Upper critical field

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; HEAT TREATMENT; MAGNETIZATION; NIOBIUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TITANIUM;

PINNING STRENGTH;

SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE;

EID: 0041464714     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.812314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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