Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1818835 | Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications | 2010 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The magnetic-field-induced variations of the microwave surface resistance, Rs, have been investigated in ceramic Mg1âx(LiAl)xB2, with x in the range 0.1-0.4. The measurements have been performed on increasing and decreasing the DC magnetic field, H0, at fixed temperatures. At low temperatures, we have observed a magnetic hysteresis in the Rs(H0) curves in all the investigated samples. On increasing the temperature, the range of H0 in which the hysteretic behavior is visible shrinks; however, in the sample with x=0.1 it is present up to temperatures close to Tc. We show that the field dependence of Rs can be quantitatively justified taking into account the critical-state effects on the fluxon lattice only in the sample with x=0.4. On the contrary, in the samples with x<0.4 the hysteresis exhibits an unusual shape, similar to that observed in others two-gap MgB2 samples, which cannot be justified in the framework of the critical-state models.
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Authors
M. Bonura, A. Agliolo Gallitto, M. Li Vigni, M. Monni,