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Advantageous grain boundaries in iron pnictide superconductors

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  • Takayoshi Katase

    (Materials and Structures Laboratory, Mailbox R3-1, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  • Yoshihiro Ishimaru

    (Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center)

  • Akira Tsukamoto

    (Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center)

  • Hidenori Hiramatsu

    (Materials and Structures Laboratory, Mailbox R3-1, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  • Toshio Kamiya

    (Materials and Structures Laboratory, Mailbox R3-1, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  • Keiichi Tanabe

    (Superconductivity Research Laboratory, International Superconductivity Technology Center)

  • Hideo Hosono

    (Materials and Structures Laboratory, Mailbox R3-1, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Frontier Research Center, S2-6F East, Mailbox S2-13, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Abstract

High critical temperature superconductors have zero power consumption and could be used to produce ideal electric power lines. The principal obstacle in fabricating superconducting wires and tapes is grain boundaries—the misalignment of crystalline orientations at grain boundaries, which is unavoidable for polycrystals, largely deteriorates critical current density. Here we report that high critical temperature iron pnictide superconductors have advantages over cuprates with respect to these grain boundary issues. The transport properties through well-defined bicrystal grain boundary junctions with various misorientation angles (θGB) were systematically investigated for cobalt-doped BaFe2As2 (BaFe2As2:Co) epitaxial films fabricated on bicrystal substrates. The critical current density through bicrystal grain boundary (JcBGB) remained high (>1 MA cm−2) and nearly constant up to a critical angle θc of ∼9°, which is substantially larger than the θc of ∼5° for YBa2Cu3O7–δ. Even at θGB>θc, the decay of JcBGB was much slower than that of YBa2Cu3O7–δ.

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  • Takayoshi Katase & Yoshihiro Ishimaru & Akira Tsukamoto & Hidenori Hiramatsu & Toshio Kamiya & Keiichi Tanabe & Hideo Hosono, 2011. "Advantageous grain boundaries in iron pnictide superconductors," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 2(1), pages 1-6, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:2:y:2011:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms1419
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1419
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