Nanodots-induced pinning centers in thin films: Effects on critical current density, activation energy and flux jump rate

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 III, 2003, Pages 3726-3729

  Crisan, Adrian ^a,b,c   Badica, Petre ^a,b,d   Fujiwara, Shingo ^a,e   Nie, Jia Cai ^a,e   Sundaresan, Athinarayanan ^a,e   Iyo, Akira ^a,e   Tanaka, Yasumoto ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Critical current density; Flux jump rate; Nano scale pinning centers; Superconducting films

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); NANOTECHNOLOGY; SUBSTRATES; THERMOANALYSIS;

PINNING CENTERS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 0041472774     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.812527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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