Why pinning by surface irregularities can explain the peak effect in transport properties and neutron diffraction results in NbSe2 and Bi-2212 crystals?

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-97

  Simon, Charles ^a   Pautrat, Alain ^a   Goupil, Christophe ^a   Scola, Joseph ^a   Mathieu, Patrice ^b   Brûlet, Annie ^c   Ruyter, Antoine ^d   Higgins, M J ^e   Bhattacharya, Shobo ^f   Plessis, D ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE LÉON BRILLOUIN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^e NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^f TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^g DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Critical current; Neutron scattering; Vortex pinning

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; HIGH CRITICAL CURRENT PHASE; LOW CRITICAL CURRENT PHASE; VORTEX PINNING;

ANISOTROPY; BISMUTH; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 30844443489     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: 03044289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02704939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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