Microstructural Features of Magnetic NiCoB Nanoparticles Addition to MgB2 Precursor Powders

Enhancing superconducting properties of MgB2 pellets by addition of amorphous magnetic Ni-Co-B nanoparticles

Amorphous magnetic Ni-Co-B nanoparticles with an average size of 5 nm were added to precursor powders of MgB2 superconductor. The preparation procedure for MgB2 pellets was optimized for obtaining the best critical current density ( Jc) at elevated magnetic fields. Addition of Ni-Co-B decreases the Jc for heat treatment of precursor powders at 650 ° C. Heat treatments at 770 ° C and higher impr...

MgB2 superconducting tapes with mechanically alloyed precursor powders as a possible alternative to NbTi

Effect of Addition of TiO2/SiO2 Nanoparticles on Hc2 and Hirr in MgB2 Bulks

In this paper, MgB2 bulks were prepared with doped TiO2 nanoparticles surface-modified by 5-10% SiO2. Quantitative X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was performed to obtain the weight fraction of impurities using the Rietveld method. The effects of addition of TiO2/SiO2 nanoparticles on the critical temperature (Tc), the upper critical field (Hc2), and the irreversibility field (Hirr) as a funct...

Effect of cobalt on structural, microstructural and magnetic properties of magnesium-zinc ferrite nanoparticles

Mg0.5-xCoxZnFe2O4 ferrite nanostructures with various amounts of Co2+ substitution (x= 0, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15) were prepared using a simple and inexpensive sol-gel method sol-gel route. Structural, microstructural and magnetic properties of the prepared powders were investigated by x-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), field emission- scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), X...

Dendritic magnetic instability in superconducting MgB2 films

– Magneto-optical imaging reveal that below 10 K the penetration of magnetic flux in MgB2 films is dominated by dendritic structures abruptly formed in response to an applied field. The dendrites show a temperature-dependent morphology ranging from quasi-1D at 4 K to large tree-like structures near 10 K. This behaviour is responsible for the anomalous noise found in magnetization curves, and st...