• Corpus ID: 59575660

Critical Current Density and Intergranular Coupling Study of the Dysprosium Oxide Nanoparticle Added Bi 1 . 6 Pb 0 . 4 Sr 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O y Superconductor

@inproceedings{Zelati2014CriticalCD,
  title={Critical Current Density and Intergranular Coupling Study of the Dysprosium Oxide Nanoparticle Added Bi 1 . 6 Pb 0 . 4 Sr 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O y Superconductor},
  author={Amir Zelati and Ahmad Amirabadizadeh and Ahmad Kompany and Hadi Salamati and J. E. Sonier},
  year={2014}
}

• A. Zelati, A. Amirabadizadeh, +2 authors J. Sonier
• Published 2014
• Physics, Materials Science

The dysprosium oxide nanoparticles’ addition effects on structural, DC electrical resistivity, critical current density, and AC magnetic susceptibility properties of polycrystalline Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2Ca2Cu3Oy samples are investigated. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis showed that both (Bi,Pb)-2223 and Bi-2212 phases coexist in the samples having orthorhombic crystal structure. Bi-2223 phase concentration increases with increasing dysprosium nanoparticle concentration. DC electrical resistivity, critical current density (Jc), and AC susceptibility measurements reveal that adding dysprosium nanoparticles to bismuth–strontium–calcium–copper–oxide (BSCCO) improves superconducting properties of this system and enhances its critical current density due to the improvement of the grain connectivity with dysprosium nanoparticle addition. A. Zelati ( ) · A. Amirabadizadeh Department of Physics, University of Birjand, Birjand, 97175/615, Iran e-mail: a [e-mail]; [e-mail] A. Kompany Department of Physics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Vakilabad Hwy, Mashhad, 9177948974, Iran H. Salamati Faculty of Physics, Technology University of Isfahan, Daneshgah e Sanati HW, Isfahan, 8415683111, Iran J. E. Sonier Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada