Estimation of Critical Current Density in a Melt-Processed Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Using AC and DC Inductive Methods


Title, author, abstract

title
Estimation of Critical Current Density in a Melt-Processed Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Using AC and DC Inductive Methods
authors
Edmund Soji Otabe, Nozomu Ohtani Teruo Matsushita, Yuichi Ishikawa1 and Shuji Yoshizawa1
Department of Computer Science and Electronics,
Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680--4 Kawazu, Iizuka 820
$^1$Central Research Laboratory, Dowa Mining Co. Ltd.,
277--1 Tobuki, Hachioji, Tokyo 192
abstract
The local and transport critical current densities in a melt-processed Y-Ba-Cu-O were estimated by analyzing the results of the Campbell method and DC magnetization measurement in terms of the Campbell model in which the reversible fluxoid motion is treated. The factor of overestimation of the local current density was evaluated from the slope of minor DC magnetization curve. The obtained local critical current density was about one order of magnitude larger than the transport critical current density and was comparable to a theoretical value where normal particles of the 211 phase are assumed to act as dominant pinning centers.
Original paper appears in
Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. Vol. 33, No. 7B, pp. L996-L999, 1994