Abstract
Oxygen and hydrogen plasma effects on the superconductivity in MgB 2 were investigated. As a result, the critical current density was found to increase by the plasma treatments by an order of magnitude at zero applied magnetic field. The electrical resistivity showed a decrease in the superconducting transition temperature after the plasma treatments, whereas the magnetic susceptibility did not show a change in the transition temperature, indicating percolation of the supercurrent among the superconducting islands in the plasma-treated samples.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 555-558 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Current Applied Physics |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 May |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by a Korea University Grant and by the Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (NRL Program R0A-2008-000-20066-0 and Project No. 20090082672). The measurements at the Korean Basic Science Institute (KBSI) are acknowledged.
Keywords
- Defects
- Magnetic properties
- MgB$-2$ superconductor
- Plasma effects
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science
- General Physics and Astronomy