Large enhancement of transport critical current density of ex-situ PIT Ag/(Ba,K)Fe2As2 tapes achieved by applying cycles of cold deformation and heat treatment

Abstract

We report that high transport critical current density exceeding 104 A/cm2 at 4.2 K and 10 T can be obtained with good reproducibility for Ag sheathed (Ba,K)Fe2As2 (Ba 122) tapes by modifying the ex-situ powder-in-tube (PIT) method. The process involves cycles of the cold deformation and subsequent heat treatment. The intermediate cycles of flat rolling and heat treatment produce uniform fine-grained structure, resulting in an enhancement of transport Jc in applied magnetic fields. However, the rolled tapes contain cracks running traverse to the tape axis, which still limit the current pass along the tape axis. We found that the application of uniaxial pressing with small reduction rate at the final stage is very effective to heal those cracks, resulting in an extraordinary increase of the transport Jc. We achieved the highest Jc (at 4.2 K and 10 T) of 2.1x104 A/cm2 among the PIT processed Fe based wires and tapes reported so far. The Jc-H curves measured at higher temperatures maintains a small filed dependence up to around 20 K, suggesting that the tapes are promising for applications at higher temperatures as well as in liquid helium.

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