Moh'd Rezeq et al 2009 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 22 125018 doi:10.1088/0953-2048/22/12/125018
Moh'd Rezeq1, S Celebi2, C Gigault3 and M A R LeBlanc3
Show affiliationsSeveral workers have reported on the observation of a peak, in the magnetic flux trapped by polycrystalline type II superconductors, when plotted versus the cooling fields from TC, and versus the magnitude of the half-cycle fields applied after zero-field cooling. We report on our observations of this behavior in a niobium sample and present a detailed model which accounts for these observations. The crucial feature of the model is that it takes into account the effect of the return magnetic field of the magnetized grains on the macroscopic continuous intergranular persistent critical currents induced to circulate in the specimen by the externally applied magnetic field. Our analysis indicates that attempts to trap magnetic fields, greater than the calculated peaks, inside hollow and solid cylinders can lead to significantly diminished results. Our analysis may also apply in calculations of hysteresis losses in type II superconducting cables.
74.70.Ad Metals; alloys and binary compounds (including A15, MgB2, etc.)
84.71.Fk Superconducting cables
75.60.Ej Magnetization curves, hysteresis, Barkhausen and related effects
Issue 12 (December 2009)
Received 10 August 2009, in final form 28 September 2009
Published 23 October 2009
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