Strongly enhanced flux pinning in one-step deposition of BaFe 2 (As 0.66 P 0.33) 2 superconductor films with uniformly dispersed BaZrO 3 nanoparticles

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Miura, Masashi ^a,b   Maiorov, Boris ^c   Kato, Takeharu ^d   Shimode, Takashi ^a   Wada, Keisuke ^a   Adachi, Seiji ^a   Tanabe, Keiichi ^a  

^a SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b SEIKEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ANISOTROPY; BARIUM; MAGNETIC FIELD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VORTEX; ZIRCON;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; DENSITY; DISPERSION; MAGNETIC FIELD; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VORTEX MOTION;

EID: 84884615443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3499     Document Type: Article

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