CHINESE JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS

Vol.26   No.1   Feb.,  2004

CONTENTS

 

Study of Magnetic Properties and Ion Size Effect for (La1-xYx)2/3Ca1/3MnO3 (0≤x≤0.3) Manganese……………………………………………………………ZHANG YU-FENG,  WANG XIN-YNA,

  CAO GUI-XIN,  LIU YONG-SHENG,  JIN CHAO,  N NISHIMURA,  K MORI,  CAO SHI-XUN,  ZHANG JIN-CANG   (7)

Grain Boundary Effect in the Sol-gel Prepared Polycrystalline Manganites………

……………………………………………………………………………………LI JIAN-QIN  (15)

Effects of Different Ti Content on NbTi Superconductor′s Critical Current

Densities………………………………………………………………XIE BAO-HAI,  WU XIAO-ZU,

 LIU XIANG-HONG,  CHEN ZI-LI,  PU MING-HUA,  LI XIAO-GUANG,  CAO LIE-ZHAO,  ZHOU LIAN  (20)

Crystal Structure and Superconductivity of YBa2Cu3O6+x Oxidized by Electrochemical

 Method……………………………………………………GUO JUAN,  CHENG GUO-SHENG,  DONG CHENG (25)

The Pseudogap Behavior in Electro-doped Sm2-xCexCuO4 Single Crystal………………

…………………………CHAI YI-SHENG,  YANG HONG-SHUN,  LIU JIAN,  YU MIN,  CAO LIE-ZHAO (30)

Inhomogeneity Introduced by Zn Impurity in Doped Cuprates……………………SONG YUN (34)

Research on Strain Effect on Cu-Ni Sheathed MgB2 Superconducting Tape…………

………………………………………………………………………FU MIN-YI,  PAN GUO-WEI,

 JIAO ZHENG-KUAN,  DING LI-REN,  ZHANG YONG,  CHEN ZHI-YOU, HAN HAN-MIN,  CHEN JING-LIN  (40)

A Scanning Squid Microscope and Its Applications for Magnetic Field Imaging and

Nondestructive Evaluation…ZHANG FENG-HUI,  DING HONG-SHENG,  HE YU-SHENG,  CHEN GENG-HUA,

  HAN SHI-JI,  DONG SHI-YING,  YAN XIAO-MING,  YANG QIAN-SHENG,  CHENG ZHAO-JIA,  JIN DUO (45)

The Influence of Nanometer Mg Powder on Preparing MgB2 Superconducting Sample

……………………………FENG QING-RONG,  CHEN JIN-PING,  XU JU,  WANG YU-HAO,  CHEN XIN (50)

A Preliminary Research of the Magnetic Concentration Device for Scanning

Squid Microscope…………………………………………………………………ZHANG FENG-HUI,

 DING HONG-SHENG,  ZHONG CHAO-RONG,  HAN SHI-JI,  DONG SHI-YING,  HE YU-SHENG,  S.I.BONDARENKO  (55)

In Situ Monitoring of the Growth of Complex Oxide Thin Films at High Oxygen

Pressures Using a Three stage Pumping Rheed System……………………………………

………………………CHEN YING-FEI,  LI JIE,  ZHU XIAO-HONG,  WANG PING,  ZHENG DONG-NING (60)

The Capacitance Equivalent Circuit for Quasi TEM HTS Microstrip and the Basic

Capacitance Model………………………………………………… HUANG HUI-FEN,  MAO JUN-FA  (66)

Studies on Some Problems Related to Pi-ring………………………………XIE FEI-XIANG,

  DENG PENG,  LING JIAN,  WANG KE,  MA PING,  WANG SHOU-ZHENG,  WANG FU-REN,  DAI YUAN-DONG  (71)

Study on Conductive Characteristics of ZnO Ceramics Doped Nb2O5 at Low

Temperature………………………………………………………JI YUAN-MING,  ZHANG JIN-CANG  (75)

Numerical Study on Stability of HTS Coil Under High Pulse Currents………………

…………………………………………LI YU,  LI XIAO-HANG,  SONG NAI-HAO,  XIAO LI-YE  (80)

 

 

 

 

STUDY OF MAGNETIC PROPERTIES

AND ION SIZE EFFECT FOR

(La1-xYx)2/3Ca1/3MnO3(0≤x≤0.3) MANGANESE

 

ZHANG YU-FENG1    WANG XIN-YNA1    CAO GUI-XIN1   LIU YONG-SHENG1

JIN CHAO1   N NISHIMURA2   K MORI2   CAO SHI-XUN1   ZHANG JIN-CANG1

1Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai  200436

2Faculty of Engineering, Toyama University, Toyama 930-8555, Japan

(Received 25 July, 2003; revised manuscript received 15 September, 2003)

 

The magnetic properties of perovskite (La1-xYx)2/3Ca1/3MnO3 (0≤x≤0.3) compounds are systematically investigated and it is given that the transition temperature Tc is related to average ion size of

 La site. It is found that with the increasing of Y3+ doped content, the metal-insulator transition temperature TMI (M-I) shifts to lower temperature. While the relevant resistance peakρp sharply increases, for the sample of x=0.3, it has enhanced eight orders of magnitudes larger than the non-doped samples (x=0.0). The decrease of average ion size of La site and the local distortion of lattice constant due to the introduction of Y can explain the experimental results. At high concentration area, say when x>0.1, magnetic studies show a gradual increase of antiferromagnetic interaction with

 the increase of x, ultimately leading to a spin-glass-like state for x=0.2 and x=0.3 compounds at about 35K.

 

Keywords: (La1-xYx)2/3Ca1/3MnO3 perovsksite manganese,magnetic properties,ion size effect

PACC:     7550L, 7130, 7530V

 

 

 

 

GRAIN BOUNDARY EFFECT IN THE SOL-GEL

PREPARED POLYCRYSTALLINE MANGANITES

 

LI JIAN-QIN

Department of Physics, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan  430070

 

The temperature dependence of resistivity obtained in the sol-gel prepared polycrystalline La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 samples is quantitatively studied in terms of a model recently proposed for ferromagnetic metallic granular systems. From this study, the grain boundary effect on the electrical transport is discussed for polycrystalline manganites.

 

Keywords: grain boundary, spin-polarized tunneling, electronic transport

PACC:     7530V, 7340R, 7570C

 

 

 

EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT Ti CONTENT ON NbTi

SUPERCONDUCTOR′S CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITIES

 

XIE BAO-HAI12  WU XIAO-ZU2  LIU XIANG-HONG2  CHEN ZI-LI2

PU MING-HUA2  LI XIAO-GUANG3  CAO LIE-ZHAO3  ZHOU LIAN2

1Northeastern University, Shenyang  110004

2Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research, Xi′an  710016

3University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei  230026

 

Three different compositions of NbTi wires have been fabricated by using alternately niobium sheets and titanium sheets. The Ti content may vary from 43WT% to 57WT% by adjusting the relative thickness of the Nb and Ti sheets in the monofilaments. The effects of different Ti content on NbTi superconductor′s critical current densities and flux pinning mechanism were discussed. The Nb/Ti interface microstructure and cross-sectional morphology diffusion have been investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The curve of Fp∝B at different composition have been fitted. The results show that the critical current density (Jc) can be improved with higher Ti content in the low field rang(<5T), but the property was weak and rapidly fall in the high field. There are two kinds of flux pinning mechanism dot pinning and subface pinning affect the property in different field.

 

Keywords: NbTi superconductor, critical current densities (Jc), flux pinning

PACC:     7470L, 7460M

 

 

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY OF YBa2Cu3O6+x

OXIDIZED BY ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD

 

GUO JUAN1,2   CHENG GUO-SHENG1,2,3    DONG CHENG1

1National Lab. for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing  100080

2Department of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang  453002

3Department of Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology  210044

(Received 10 April, 2003)

 

The electrochemical oxidation was performed on oxygen deficient YBa2Cu3O6+x (x~0.1) bulk samples prepared by solid-state method. The oxidation on anode was carried out in molten KNO3-NaNO3 at 360℃. The samples oxidized electrochemically were characterized by resistance, magnetic susceptibility measurements and XRD analysis. The superconducting volume fraction increases with oxidation time and charge passed through samples. Using this method, we can obtain samples with single superconducting 60K phase or 90K phase and samples containing these two phases. The results of XRD analysis reveal that the structure of outer layer and inter layer is different indicating that the distribution of oxygen in samples is inhomogeneous.

 

Keywords: electrochemical oxidation, YBCO, crystal structure, superconductivity

PACC:     7470V, 8280F, 6110

 

THE PSEUDOGAP BEHAVIOR IN

ELECTRO-DOPED Sm2-xCexCuO4 SINGLE CRYSTAL

 

CHAI YI-SHENG   YANG HONG-SHUN   LIU JIAN   YU MIN   CAO LIE-ZHAO

Structrual Research lab, Physics Department, University of Science and Technology

y of China, Hefei, Anhui  230026

(Received 10 April, 2003)

 

The pseudogap-like behavior has been observed in electro-doped superconductor Sm1.85Ce0.15CuO4 for the first time. The resistivity ρ and thermopower S of single crystal Sm1.85Ce0.15CuO4 with different annealing times were measured. The data of temperature dependence of resistivity indicate that the high temperature resistivity ρ, dρ/dT and the slope of thermopower dS/dT increase with increasing annealing time, which presume a decrease of charge density and act as the decrease of Ce content

x. In each annealing procedure, the curve of S~T and ρ~T change their slopes below a certain temperature T*. It moves to high temperature region with increase annealing time, and becomes more and more clear, indicating the opening of a pseudogap under this temperature. At the same time, a minimum value exists in the thermopower at certain temperature, which is the manifest of carrier localization. At about 50K, a clear peak of phonon-drag was observed in thermopower, and its positive value shows a change of sign in charge carrier at low temperature, which is in accordance with the change of slope in Hall coefficients.

 

Keywords: perovskite phase superconductors, transport properties, thermoelectric power

PACC:     7470V, 7430F, 7430J

 

 

 

INHOMOGENEITY INTRODUCED BY

Zn IMPURITY IN DOPED CUPRATES

 

SONG YUN

Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing  100875

(Received 11 April, 2003)

 

Two-dimensional t-J model with nonmagnetic Zn impurities is studied based on the fermion-spin theory. Within an improved Green function theory, we perform numerical calculation for the  finite lattices with periodic boundary conditions, and obtain the inhomogeneities of hole concentration and local antiferromagnetic correlations around the nonmagnetic Zn impurities. It is shown that the spin excitations are strongly influenced by the nonmagnetic impurities because the local antiferromagnetic correlations closest to the impurities are enhanced. The nearest-neighbor spin correlations also have strong effect to the energy of hole, as a result a bound state of hole is formed around the nonmagnetic

-c Zn impurity.

 

Keywords:t-J model, fermion-spin theory, Zn impurity

PACC:     7420M, 7430J, 7540M

 

 

RESEARCH ON STRAIN EFFECT ON

Cu-Ni SHEATHED MgB2 SUPERCONDUCTING TAPE

 

1Physics Department of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou  310027

2Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei  230031

(Received 11 April, 2003)

 

The elastic modulus measurements of Cu-Ni sheathed MgB2 monofilament tape fabricated by “power in tube” method have been performed using electric technique. The magnetic field dependence of Ic has been investigated on the sample subjected to various strain levels through bending of the tape with different radius. We found that our MgB2 sample is sensitive to applied strains, mechanical reinforced MgB2 tape is essential to practical application. The bend strain and stress have been calculated based on a formula derived from the definition.

 

Keywords: MgB2 monofilament, Strain effect, Dynamics process of quench

PACC:     7430L, 7470

 

 

 

A SCANNING SQUID MICROSCOPE AND ITS APPLICATIONS FOR

MAGNETIC FIELD IMAGING AND NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION

 

ZHANG FENG-HUI1   DING HONG-SHENG1,2   HE YU-SHENG1   CHEN GENG-HUA1

HAN SHI-JI1   DONG SHI-YING1   YAN XIAO-MING3   YANG QIAN-SHENG1   CHENG ZHAO-JIA1   JIN DUO1

1Institute of physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing  100080

2Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing  100083

3Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing  100080

(Received 11 April, 2003)

 

We have built two scanning SQUID microscope for room temperature samples with LTS SQUID and HTS (YBCO) SQUID respectively. SQUIDs are mounted on the low end of the finger in Dewar. A thin sapphire window separates SQUIDs and samples. Samples stay in room temperature. The distance between SQUIDs and samples can be adjusted with a bellow. The LTS SQUID microscope has a field sensitivity superior to 3pT/Hz1/2 and spatial resolution better than 140μm. The HTS SQUID system is of ~46pT/Hz1/2 field sensitivity and ~500μm spatial resolution. Both microscopes can stably work for a long time in unshielded environment. We also have used them to do some interesting experiments for magnetic field

imaging and nondestructive evaluation (NDE).

 

Keywords: SQUID, microscope, magnetism imaging, nondestructive evaluation

PACC:     0755, 8170L

 

 

THE INFLUENCE OF NANOMETER Mg POWDER

ON PREPARING MgB2 SUPERCONDUCTING SAMPLE

 

FENG QING-RONG   CHEN JIN-PING   XU JU   WANG YU-HAO   CHEN XIN

Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Artificial Microstructure and

Mesoscopic Physics, Peking University, Beijing  100871

(Received 10 April, 2003)

 

MgB2 superconducting sample, with nanometer magnesium powder and boron powder as raw materials (hereafter referee as to nano-MgB2 superconducting sample), was prepared at ambient pressure. A set of in-situ ρ-T curves were obtained It is different from those in-situ ρ-T curves obtained for

the MgB2 superconducting samples, with ordinary off-the-shelf powder and boron powder as the raw materials (hereafter referee as to ordinary-MgB2 superconducting sample) prepared in the vacuum and flowing argon atmosphere respectively. The experimental results indicated that the temperature of formation MgB2-phase of nano-MgB2 superconducting sample is between 430℃ and 490℃. It is lower than the temperature of formation MgB2-phase of ordinary-MgB2 superconducting sample sintered in vacuum and argon atmosphere: 640℃~700℃ and 530℃~630℃ respectively. The density of nano-MgB2 superconducting sample is 1.46g/cm3, and is higher than the densities of other MgB2 superconductin

g sample sintered for one time.

 

Keywords: Nano Mg powder, MgB2 superconductor, SEM graph, X-ray diffraction

PACC:     7400, 7430, 7490, 7470Y

 

A PRELIMINARY RESEARCH OF THE MAGNETIC CONCENTRATION

DEVICE FOR SCANNING SQUID MICROSCOPE

 

ZHANG FENG-HUI1   DING HONG-SHENG1,2  ZHONG CHAO-RONG1,3

HAN SHI-JI1   DONG SHI-YING1   HE YU-SHENG1   S.I.BONDARENKO1

1Institute of physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing  100080

2Department of Physics, university of Science and Technology Beijing,Beijing  100083

3Department of Physics, Chongqing University, Chongqing  400044

4Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine

 

The properties of the magnetic concentration device (i.e. the concentrator) have been investigated for the potential application in scanning SQUID microscope. It was suggested that the feature of the concentrator can be characterized by a concentration parameter K, and a simple model is then proposed, of which K is dependent on the magnetic permeability of the material and the demagnetization factor of the device. Systemic studies of permalloy wire with 0.1mm diameter have been carried out. Experimental results of dependences of the concentration parameter on device length and excited field (current) were obtained, respectively. It was established that the theoretical model can give a good description of the characteristic feature of the concentrator qualitatively.

 

Keywords: ferromagnetic concentrator, concentration parameter, magnetic permeability,

demagnetization factor

PACC:     0755, 8170L

 

 

IN SITU MONITORING OF THE GROWTH OF COMPLEX OXIDE

THIN FILMS AT HIGH OXYGEN PRESSURES USING

A THREE-STAGE PUMPING RHEED SYSTEM

 

CHEN YING-FEI   LI JIE   ZHU XIAO-HONG   WANG PING   ZHENG DONG-NING

National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, CAS, P. O. Box 603, Beijing  100080

(Received 10 April, 2003)

 

We have successfully developed a high-pressure RHEED accessory with a three-stage differential pumping system for the PLD equipment in our laboratory. It can be used for in situ monitoring during the deposition of complex oxides at standard PLD conditions. Oxygen pressure in the deposition chamber can be increased to as high as 21Pa while fairly clear RHEED patterns are observable. We monitored

the deposition of SrTiO3:Nb, Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3, and YBa2Cu3O7 single layers, as well as Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3/SrTiO3:Nb heterostructure on (001) SrTiO3 substrates. Pattern analyses suggest that all the films are epitaxy with good crystallinity; however the growth mode and film morphology are greatly affected by the ambient during film deposition. In high vacuum, the film tends to grow in the layer-by-layer mode, and the surface roughness is within nanometers; in an oxygen pressure of 5Pa or above, however, the film tends to grow in the island mode with less smooth surface. It is revealed that, in the case of multilayer growth, the crystallinity and surface smoothness of the top layer are limited by the quality of the bottom layer.

 

Keywords: RHEED, Epitaxial Growth, High-Tc Superconductor

PACC:     7475

 

 

 

THE CAPACITANCE EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT FOR QUASITEM HTS

MICROSTRIP AND THE BASIC CAPACITANCE MODEL

 

HUANG HUI-FEN   MAO JUN-FA

(Received 29 May, 2003; revised manuscript received 9 September, 2003)

 

In this paper the capacitance equivalent circuits of quasi-TEM HTS microstrip have been presented for thick and thin conductors according to the distribution of magnetic field and current density in superconductor thick and thin films, and the basic capacitance expressions have been given. The expressions are verified by using them to analyze three examples.

 

Keywords: HTS, microstrip, Capacitance

PACC:     7360K, 7300, 8140

 

 

 

STUDIES ON SOME PROBLEMS RELATED TO PI-RING

XIE FEI-XIANG    DENG PENG     LING JIAN     WANG KE     MA PING

WANG SHOU-ZHENG     WANG FU-REN      DAI YUAN-DONG

Mesoscopic Physics National Laboratory and Department of Physics, Peking Univers

ity, Beijing  100871

(Received 11 April, 2003)

 

We concluded our work related to the principle and the possible application of the spontaneous magnetization in a π ring. Temperature dependence has been deduced which fits the experimental data well. We analyzed a design of a π ring based rapid single flux quantum trigger unit without a continuous bias current and got the suitable working regime. The free energy of a coupled double π ring has been calculated. The result showed that reverse direction coupling has a lower energy. And without magnetic coupling, the quantum interference effect will also lead to reverse direction coupling.

 

Keywords: π- ring, spontaneous magnetization, forth-ordered Runge-Kutta method

PACC:     7400, 7490

 

 

 

 

STUDY ON CONDUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF ZnO

CERAMICS DOPED Nb2O5 AT LOW TEMPERATURE

 

JI YUAN-MING1   ZHANG JIN-CANG2

1Ching University of Ming and Technology, Beijing  100083

2Shanghai University, Shanghai  200436

 

This paper presents the results of the study of ZnO conductive ceramics doped with Nb2O5 at low temperature. The experiment results show that with the increasing of Nb2O5 contents, resistivity reduced at low temperature. The higher sintering temperature, the smaller resistivity is for ZnO samples in different sintering temperatures. As the sintering time increased, the resistivity decreases at the same sintering temperature.

 

Keywords: ZnO ceramics, conductiv characteristics, doped, low temperature

PACC:     7480T, 7490

 

 

NUMERICAL STUDY ON STABILITY OF

HTS COIL UNDER HIGH PULSE CURRENTS

 

LI YU   LI XIAO-HANG    SONG NAI-HAO    XIAO LI-YE

Applied Superconductivity Laboratory PO Box 2703,

Institute of Electrical Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing  100080

(Received 9 April, 2003)

 

In high temperature superconducting (HTS) coil, the loss of stability may be result of the accumulation of heat, which can be generated from the flux-flow resistance, AC losses and normal-zone resistance. Hence the stability of a HTS coil under high pulse currents is a key problem. In this paper, a numerical model was set up to simulate the heat generation and quench propagation after a high pulse current was applied. The temperature distribution as a function of time in the coil was calculated. The simulation is in good agreement with the experimental results. In the AC cases, a maximum “safe” current can be calculated from our simulation, which will be very helpful for the design of HTS AC magnets and transformers.

 

Keywords: High temperature superconducting coil, stability, numerical simulation

PACC:     7470p, 7490