Review of the superconducting properties of MgB2

C Buzea, T Yamashita - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
This review paper illustrates the main normal and superconducting state properties of
magnesium diboride, a material known since the early 1950s but only recently discovered to …

7 Tunable infrared laser spectroscopy

RF Curl, FK Tittel - Annual Reports Section" C"(Physical Chemistry), 2002 - pubs.rsc.org
The infrared region of the spectrum has been of great interest to researchers for many years
with the mid-to far-IR frequency region from about 100 to 3800 cm 1 of particular interest …

Superconducting properties of MgB2 tapes and wires

R Flükiger, HL Suo, N Musolino, C Beneduce… - Physica C …, 2003 - Elsevier
An overview of the current state of development of MgB2 wires and tapes prepared by
several techniques is presented, based on the known literature data and our own results …

Effect of carbon nanotube do** on critical current density of MgB2 superconductor

SX Dou, WK Yeoh, J Horvat, M Ionescu - Applied physics letters, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of do** MgB2 with carbon nanotubes on transition temperature, lattice
parameters, critical current density and flux pinning was studied for MgB2xCx with x 0, 0.05 …

High performance new MgB2 superconducting hollow wires

G Giunchi, S Ceresara, G Ripamonti… - Superconductor …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
MgB 2 hollow wires have been produced with a new technique which uses a conventional
wire manufacturing process but is applied to composite billets containing the elemental B …

Effect of nano-carbon particle do** on the flux pinning properties of MgB2 superconductor

S Soltanian, J Horvat, XL Wang, P Munroe… - Physica C …, 2003 - Elsevier
Polycrystalline MgB2− xCx samples with x= 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 nano-particle carbon
powder were prepared using an in situ reaction method under well-controlled conditions to …

Properties of superconducting MgB2 wires: in situ versus ex situ reaction technique

AV Pan, S Zhou, H Liu, S Dou - Superconductor Science and …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We have fabricated a series of iron-sheathed superconducting wires prepared by the
powder-in-tube technique from (MgB 2) 1− x:(Mg+ 2B) x initial powder mixtures taken with …

High transport critical current density and large Hc2 and Hirr in nanoscale SiC doped MgB2 wires sintered at low temperature

S Soltanian, XL Wang, J Horvat, SX Dou… - Superconductor …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a systematic study on the effect of sintering temperature on the phase formation,
critical current density, upper critical field and irreversibility field of nanoscale SiC doped …

Enhancement of critical current densities of powder-in-tube processed MgB2 tapes by using MgH2 as a precursor powder

H Fujii, K Togano, H Kumakura - Superconductor Science and …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigated the effect of starting powder on the microstructure and superconducting
properties of MgB 2 tapes prepared by a powder-in-tube technique. Two kinds of powder …

Superconductivity, critical current density, and flux pinning in MgB2− x (SiC) x/2 superconductor after SiC nanoparticle do**

SX Dou, AV Pan, S Zhou, M Ionescu… - Journal of Applied …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
Extensive research efforts have been made towards increasing the critical temperature (Tc)
in MgB2 since superconductivity in this compound was discovered. 1 The most commonly …