Effects of sintering atmosphere on the superconducting properties of SiC doped bulk MgB2 superconductor

Authors

Sihai Zhou, University of WollongongFollow
Alexey V. Pan, University of WollongongFollow
Yun Zhang, University of WollongongFollow
S. X. Dou, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

24844

Publication Details

Zhou, S., Pan, A. V., Zhang, Y. Dou, S. X. (2008). Effects of sintering atmosphere on the superconducting properties of SiC doped bulk MgB2 superconductor. In 8th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS 2007), 16-20 September, Brussels, Belgium. Journal of Physics, 97 012081-1-012081-6.

Abstract

A study was conducted to investigate the effects of the sintering atmosphere on the superconducting properties of SiC doped MgB2 superconductors. Four different purity Ar gases were chosen as the sintering atmosphere for making bulk samples. It was found that the impurities in the Ar gas resulted in different leves of MgO in the resultant MgB2 superconductors. Superconducting properties, such as the critical temperature (Tc), critical current density (Jc) and upper critical field (Hc2) were affected by the impurity phase inside the samples. Sample phase composition and morphology were analysed to explain the effect of the sintering atmosphere on the sample properties.

Grant Number

ARC/DP0770205

Additional Grant Number

http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP0770205