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Best practices for a proper evaluation and conversion of physical property equations in superconductors: the examples of WHH formulation, Bean model and other cases of interest
Chiara Tarantini, Evgeny F. Talantsev, Ilaria Pallecchi +3
In recent years there have been growing concerns about the proper evaluation of physical properties of superconductors, in particular for quantities extracted from magnetic charact…
Nuclear spin coherence in superconducting NbSn
Gan Zhai, William P. Halperin, Arneil P. Reyes +4
We have investigated the normal and superconducting states of the technologically important compound NbSn using Nb nuclear magnetic resonance. From spin-lattice relaxati…
Influence of Nb Alloying on Nb Recrystallization and the Upper Critical Field of Nb3Sn
Nawaraj Paudel, Chiara Tarantini, Shreyas Balachandran +3
Nb3Sn conductors are important candidates for high-field magnets for particle accelerators, and they continue to be widely used for many laboratory and NMR magnets. However, the cr…
Procedures for proper validation of record critical current density claims
Chiara Tarantini, David C. Larbalestier
High critical current density Jc is generally the most important property of any superconductor used for applications. The critical current Ic is most frequently measured by transp…
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation of Superconducting and Normal State NbSn
Gan Zhai, William P. Halperin, Arneil P. Reyes +5
The superconductor NbSn has a high critical temperature and high critical field, widely used for high-field superconducting magnets. In this work we investigate its microscopic…
Fe-based high field superconductors for cost-effective future accelerator magnets
F. Kametani, C. Tarantini, E. Hellstrom
We propose a targeted attack on making the Fe-based superconductor (FBS) AEFe2As2 (122) (AE = alkaline earth, here Ba or Sr) into a much cheaper, higher stability margin, round, tw…
Approaching the ultimate superconducting properties of (Ba,K)Fe2As2 by naturally formed low-angle grain boundary networks
Kazumasa Iida, Dongyi Qin, Chiara Tarantini +8
The most effective way to enhance the dissipation-free supercurrent in presence of magnetic field for type II superconductors is the introduction of defects that acts as artificial…
Ta, Ti and Hf effects on NbSn high-field performance: temperature-dependent dopant occupancy and failure of Kramer extrapolation
Chiara Tarantini, Shreyas Balachandran, Steve M Heald +5
The increasing demand for improving the high-field (16-22 T) performance of NbSn conductors requires a better understanding of the properties of modern wires much closer to irr…
Fe-based superconducting thin films on metallic substrates: growth, characteristics and relevant properties
Kazumasa Iida, Jens Hänisch, Chiara Tarantini
The discovery of Fe-based superconductors (FBS) as the second class of high-temperature superconducting transition (high-Tc) materials after the cuprates generated a significant im…
Artificially Engineered Nanostrain in Iron Chalcogenide Superconductor Thin Film for Enhancing Supercurrent
Sehun Seo, Heesung Noh, Ning Li +13
Although nanoscale deformation, such as nanostrain in iron chalcogenide (FeSexTe1-x, FST) thin films, has attracted attention owing to the enhancement of general superconducting pr…
Beneficial influence of Hf and Zr additions to Nb4at.%Ta on the vortex pinning of NbSn with and without an O source
Shreyas Balachandran, Chiara Tarantini, Peter J. Lee +5
Here we show that addition of Hf to Nb4Ta can significantly improve the high field performance of NbSn, making it suitable for dipole magnets for Future Circular Collider (FC…
Evidence from EXAFS for Different Ta/Ti Site Occupancy in High Critical Current Density NbSn Superconductor Wires
Steve M. Heald, Chiara Tarantini, Peter J. Lee +4
To meet critical current density, J, targets for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), the planned replacement for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high field performance of…
Effect of -particle irradiation on a NdFeAs(O,F) thin film
C. Tarantini, K. Iida, N. Sumiya +6
The effect of -particle irradiation on a NdFeAs(O,F) thin film has been investigated to determine how the introduction of defects affects basic superconducting properties, inclu…
Selective mass enhancement close to the quantum critical point in BaFe(AsP)
V. Grinenko, K. Iida, F. Kurth +16
A quantum critical point (QCP) is currently being conjectured for the BaFe(AsP) system at the critical value 0.3. In the proximity of a QCP,…
High-field transport properties of a P-doped BaFe2As2 film on technical substrate
Kazumasa Iida, Hikaru Sato, Chiara Tarantini +5
High temperature (high-Tc) superconductors like cuprates have superior critical current properties in magnetic fields over other superconductors. However, superconducting wires for…
Superconducting properties of Ba(Fe1-xNix)2As2 thin films in high magnetic fields
Stefan Richter, Fritz Kurth, Kazumasa Iida +9
We report on electrical transport properties of epitaxial Ba(Fe1-xNix)2As2 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition in static magnetic fields up to 35 T. The thin film shows a c…
Intrinsic and extrinsic pinning in NdFeAs(O,F): vortex trapping and lock-in by the layered structure
C. Tarantini, K. Iida, J. Haenisch +10
The Fe-based superconductors (FBS) present a large variety of compounds whose properties are affected to different extents by their crystal structures. Amongst them, the F…
Significant enhancement of compositional and superconducting homogeneity in Ti rather than Ta-doped Nb3Sn
C. Tarantini, Z. H. Sung, P. J. Lee +2
Nb3Sn wires are now very close to their final optimization but despite its classical nature, detailed understanding of the role of Ta and Ti doping in the A15 is not fully understo…
Unusually high critical current of clean P-doped BaFe2As2 single crystalline thin film
F. Kurth, C. Tarantini, V. Grinenko +12
Microstructura lly clean, isov alently P-doped BaFe2As2 (Ba-122) single crystalline thin films have been prepared on MgO (001) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. These films sho…
Development of very high Jc in Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 thin films grown on CaF2
C. Tarantini, F. Kametani, S. Lee +6
Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 is the most tunable of the Fe-based superconductors (FBS) in terms of acceptance of high densities of self-assembled and artificially introduced pinning centres wh…
Examination of the tradeoff between intrinsic and extrinsic properties in the optimization of a modern internal tin Nb3Sn conductor
C. Tarantini, P. J. Lee, N. Craig +2
In modern Nb3Sn wires there is a fundamental compromise to be made between optimizing the intrinsic properties associated with the superfluid density in the A15 phase (e.g. Tc, Hc,…
Artificially engineered superlattices of pnictide superconductor
S. Lee, C. Tarantini, P. Gao +9
Significant progress has been achieved in fabricating high quality bulk and thinfilm iron-based superconductors. In particular, artificial layered pnictide superlattices offer the…
Oxypnictide SmFeAs(O,F) superconductor: a candidate for high-field magnet applications
Kazumasa Iida, Jens Haenisch, Chiara Tarantini +10
The recently discovered oxypnictide superconductor SmFeAs(O,F) is the most attractive material among the Fe-based superconductors due to its highest transition temperature of 56 K…
Artificial and self-assembled pinning centers in Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 thin films as a route to very high current density
C. Tarantini, S. Lee, F. Kametani +7
We report on the superior vortex pinning of single and multilayer Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 thin films with self-assembled c-axis and artificially introduced ab-plane pins. Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2…