Weak-link behavior of grain boundaries in superconducting Ba (Fe 1-xCox)2As2 bicrystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Lee, S ^a   Jiang, J ^b   Weiss, J D ^b   Folkman, C M ^a   Bark, C W ^a   Tarantini, C ^b   Xu, A ^b   Abraimov, D ^b   Polyanskii, A ^b   Nelson, C T ^c   Zhang, Y ^c   Baek, S H ^a   Jang, H W ^a   Yamamoto, A ^b   Kametani, F ^b   Pan, X Q ^c   Hellstrom, E E ^b   Gurevich, A ^b   Eom, C B ^a   Larbalestier, D C ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUPRATES; HIGH-T; IRREVERSIBILITY FIELDS; LOW ANISOTROPY; LOW CARRIER DENSITY; PAIRING SYMMETRIES; PNICTIDES; TILT GRAIN BOUNDARY; UPPER CRITICAL FIELDS; VORTEX PINNING;

BICRYSTALS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BARIUM;

EID: 71549128399     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3262953     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. H. Hilgenkamp and J. Mannhart, Rev. Mod. Phys. 0034-6861 74, 485 (2002). 10.1103/RevModPhys.74.485
2. D. C. Larbalestier, A. Gurevich, M. D. Feldmann, and A. A. Polyanskii, Nature (London) 0028-0836 414, 368 (2001). 10.1038/35104654 (Pubitemid 33097819)
3. J. E. Durrell and N. A. Rutter, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 0953-2048 22, 013001 (2009). 10.1088/0953-2048/22/1/013001
4. P. N. Arendt and S. R. Foltyn, MRS Bulletin 29, 543 (2004).
5. A. Goyal, M. P. Paranthaman, and U. Schoop, MRS Bulletin 29, 552 (2004).
6. F. Hunte, J. Jaroszynski, A. Gurevich, D. C. Larbalestier, R. Jin, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, D. K. Christen, and D. Mandrus, Nature (London) 0028-0836 453, 903 (2008). 10.1038/nature07058 (Pubitemid 351832572)
7. J. Jaroszynski, F. Hunte, L. Balicas, Y. J. Jo, I. Raicevic, A. Gurevich, D. C. Larbalestier, F. F. Balakirev, L. Fang, P. Cheng, Y. Jia, and H. H. Wen, Phys. Rev. B 0163-1829 78, 174523 (2008). 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.174523
8. M. M. Altarawneh, K. Collar, C. H. Mielke, N. Ni, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, Phys. Rev. B 0163-1829 78, 220505 (R) (2008). 10.1103/PhysRevB.78. 220505
9. H. Q. Yuan, J. Singleton, F. F. Balakirev, S. A. Baily, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang, Nature (London) 0028-0836 457, 565 (2009). 10.1038/nature07676
10. A. Yamamoto, J. Jaroszynski, C. Tarantini, L. Balicas, J. Jiang, A. Gurevich, D. C. Larbalestier, R. Jin, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, D. K. Christen, and D. Mandrus, Appl. Phys. Lett. 0003-6951 94, 062511 (2009). 10.1063/1.3081455
11. S. Lee, J. Jiang, C. T. Nelson, C. W. Bark, J. D. Weiss, C. Tarantini, H. W. Jang, C. M. Folkman, S. H. Baek, A. Polyanskii, D. Abraimov, A. Yamamoto, Y. Zhang, X. Q. Pan, E. E. Hellstrom, D. C. Larbalestier, and C. B. Eom, arXiv:0910.0268v1 (unpublished).
12. C. Senatore, R. Flukiger, M. Cantoni, G. Wu, R. H. Liu, and X. H. Chen, Phys. Rev. B 0163-1829 78, 054514 (2008). 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.054514
13. A. Yamamoto, A. A. Polyanskii, J. Jiang, F. Kametani, C. Tarantini, F. Hunte, J. Jaroszynski, E. E. Hellstrom, P. J. Lee, A. Gurevich, D. C. Larbalestier, Z. A. Ren, J. Yang, X. L. Dong, W. Lu, and Z. X. Zhao, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 0953-2048 21, 095008 (2008). 10.1088/0953-2048/21/9/095008
14. R. Prozorov, M. E. Tillman, E. D. Mun, and P. C. Canfield, New J. Phys. 1367-2630 11, 035004 (2009). 10.1088/1367-2630/11/3/035004
15. S. Haindl, M. Kidszun, A. Kauffmann, K. Nenkov, N. Kozlova, J. Freudenberger, T. Thersleff, J. Werner, E. Reich, L. Schultz, and B. Holzapfel, arXiv:0907.2271v1 (unpublished).
16. F. Kametani, P. Li, D. Abraimov, A. A. Polyanskii, A. Yamamoto, J. Jiang, E. E. Hellstrom, A. Gurevich, D. C. Larbalestier, Z. A. Ren, J. Yang, X. L. Dong, W. Lu, and Z. X. Zhao, Appl. Phys. Lett. 0003-6951 95, 142502 (2009). 10.1063/1.3224198
17. H. Hiramatsu, T. Katase, T. Kamiya, M. Hirano, and H. Hosono, Appl. Phys. Express 1882-0778 1, 101702 (2008). 10.1143/APEX.1.101702
18. D. Kim, P. Berghuis, M. B. Field, D. J. Miller, K. E. Gray, R. Feenstra, and D. K. Christen, Phys. Rev. B 0163-1829 62, 12505 (2000). 10.1103/PhysRevB.62.12505 (Pubitemid 32323860)
19. D. T. Verebelyi, D. K. Christen, R. Feenstra, C. Cantoni, A. Goyal, D. F. Lee, M. Paranthaman, P. N. Arendt, R. F. DePaula, J. R. Groves, and C. Prouteau, Appl. Phys. Lett. 0003-6951 76, 1755 (2000). 10.1063/1.126157
20. A. Gurevich and L. D. Cooley, Phys. Rev. B 0163-1829 50, 13563 (1994). 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.13563
21. A. Gurevich and E. A. Pashitskii, Phys. Rev. B 0163-1829 57, 13878 (1998). 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.13878
22. M. A. Schofield, M. Beleggia, Y. M. Zhu, K. Guth, and C. Jooss, Phys. Rev. Lett. 0031-9007 92, 195502 (2004). 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.195502
23. X. Song, G. Daniels, D. M. Feldmann, A. Gurevich, and D. C. Larbalestier, Nature Mater. 1476-1122 4, 470 (2005). 10.1038/nmat1394 (Pubitemid 40774052)
24. As a review see, I. I. Mazin and J. Schmalian, Physica C 0921-4534 469, 614 (2009). 10.1016/j.physc.2009.03.019
25. J. Zhao, Q. Huang, C. de la Cruz, S. L. Li, J. W. Lynn, Y. Chen, M. A. Green, G. F. Chen, G. Li, Z. Li, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, and P. C. Dai, Nature Mater. 1476-1122 7, 953 (2008). 10.1038/nmat2315
26. C. H. Lee, A. Iyo, H. Eisaki, H. Kito, M. T. Fernandez-Diaz, T. Ito, K. Kihou, H. Matsuhata, M. Braden, and K. Yamada, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 0031-9015 77, 083704 (2008). 10.1143/JPSJ.77.083704
27. A. A. Polyanskii, A. Gurevich, A. E. Pashitski, N. F. Heinig, R. D. Redwing, J. E. Nordman, and D. C. Larbalestier, Phys. Rev. B 0163-1829 53, 8687 (1996). 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.8687