Significant improvement of flux pinning and irreversibility field in nano-carbon-doped MgB2 superconductor

Solid State Communications

Volumn 146, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 330-334

  Mudgel, Monika ^a   Awana, V P S ^a   Kishan, H ^a   Bhalla, G L ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

A. MgB2 superconductor; D. Critical current density; D. Flux pinning

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

MGB2 SUPERCONDUCTOR; NANO-CARBON CONTENT;

FLUX PINNING;

EID: 42049117133     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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