Mechanism of enhancement in electromagnetic properties of MgB2 by nano SiC doping

作者:Dou S X*; Shcherbakova O; Yoeh W K; Kim J H; Soltanian S; Wang X L; Senatore C; Flukiger R; Dhalle M; Husnjak O; Babic E
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2007, 98(9): 097002.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.097002

摘要

A comparative study of pure, SiC, and C doped MgB2 wires has revealed that the SiC doping allowed C substitution and MgB2 formation to take place simultaneously at low temperatures. C substitution enhances H-c2, while the defects, small grain size, and nanoinclusions induced by C incorporation and low-temperature processing are responsible for the improvement in J(c). The irreversibility field (H-irr) for the SiC doped sample reached the benchmarking value of 10 T at 20 K, exceeding that of NbTi at 4.2 K. This dual reaction model also enables us to predict desirable dopants for enhancing the performance properties of MgB2.

  • 出版日期2007-3-2