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Amplitude-dependent ultrasonic attenuation in the normal and superconducting states of indium-doped tin

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The amplitude-dependent ultrasonic attenuation was studied at 3.6 and 10 MHz in three annealed single crystals of tin doped with 0.0016, 0.0031, and 0.00928 at% indium. The amplitude of the pulse in each case was varied from 30 to 300 V peak to peak. The results show that the dynamic loss is amplitude dependent, as predicted theoretically by Rogers. The attenuation peaks due to the breakaway of the dislocation from minor pinning points were observed and were used to calculate the electronic damping parameter and the dislocation resonance frequency. The former parameter was calculated from Holstein's theoretical expression and was found to be in agreement with the value determined experimentally.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

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Chaudhuri, K.D., Mukerjee, A.K. Amplitude-dependent ultrasonic attenuation in the normal and superconducting states of indium-doped tin. J Low Temp Phys 26, 407–422 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00655419

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