Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Anooja, Jayakumari B.
• Aswathy, Pillai M.
• Varghese, Neson
• Aloysius, Rajappan P.
• Syamaprasad, Upendran
• Goyal, A.

Titel

SmFeAsO Superconductor with Preferred Crystallographic Orientation and Enhanced Critical Current Density

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2014-07, Vol.97 (7), p.2099-2104

Ort / Verlag

Columbus: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The effect of combined substitution of Sm3+ and O2− with Ca2+ and F−, respectively, on the structural and superconducting properties of SmFeAsO system is investigated. It is observed that the binary doping using CaF2 causes considerable structural as well as microstructural changes wherein the preferred orientation of (00 l) planes and enhancement of grain size are quite interesting. Moreover, a maximum TC of 53.8 K and a transport JC of 880 A/cm2 (12 K) are achieved in the codoped samples. The achievement of preferred orientation, enhanced TC, and the subsequent increase in JC of the modified SmFeAsO system are particularly significant for high current conductor development.