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Neutron and heavy-ion irradiation effect on pinning properties of La214 single crystals and Y123 coated conductors are reviewed. In La214, we observed a large enhancement of Jc at low magnetic field by the irradiation, but there is big difference in Jc-B characteristics between neutron-irradiated sample and heavy-ion irradiated sample. The former causes so-called “fish-tail” type 2nd peak, while latter causes “matching effect” type 2nd peak in Jc-B curve. In Y123 coated conductors, we examined the effect of columnar defect size for the improvement of Jc. We modified the defect size by changing Se, either by changing the ion species to be irradiated or by changing the thickness of Ag layer on top of Y123 layer. The largest enhancement of Jc at 77 K has been observed in case of the Xe-ion irradiation, whereas TRIM code calculation gives largest Se value for Au-ion irradiation without Ag layer. XRD and Raman microscopy data suggested the introduction of the disorder inside the Y123 crystal lattice in Au-ion irradiated sample, which likely causes the depression of superconducting properties. We also show that post-annealing effectively removes the damage inside Y123 for further Jc improvement.
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The author would like to thank Dr. T. Kimura for La214 single crystals, Dr. A. Ibi for Y123 coated conductors, and Dr. M. Konczykowski for heavy- ion irradiation in GANIL. The irradiation and post-annealing of Y123 had been studied in collaboration with K.Nakashima and T. Terai.
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Chikumoto, N. (2021). Effect of the Neutron and Heavy-ion Irradiation on the Pinning Properties of Cuprate Superconductors. In: Roca, A.G., et al. Surfaces and Interfaces of Metal Oxide Thin Films, Multilayers, Nanoparticles and Nano-composites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74073-3_8
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