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Influence of Hydrocarbon Doping on Critical Current Density and Percolation Behavior of MgB2

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In polycrystalline MgB2 samples, the crystal grains are randomly oriented, and the anisotropy of the upper critical field leads to different supercurrent carrying capacities in different grains, so the overall supercurrent becomes percolation in applied magnetic field. In this paper, we studied the doping effect of citric acid on the critical current density and the percolation behavior in polycrystalline MgB2 samples. By fitting the experimental data with the percolation model, it is found that the anisotropy of the upper critical field is gradually decreased by doping citric acid, which alters the percolation behavior of the supercurrent of the polycrystalline MgB2 samples. In addition, it is observed that deviation of the experimental data from the typical grain boundary pinning theory reduces with increasing doping level or as the temperature approaching Tc. The phenomenon is well explained according to the systematical decrease of anisotropy parameter \(\gamma=(B_{c2}^\parallel/B_{c2}^\perp)\) with doping level and temperature.

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This work received the financial support from the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFE0301401), the Industrial Guidance (Key) Project of Fujian Science and Technology Department (Grant No. 2020H0013). The Fujian Normal University granted Y. Z. the financial support of the talent project.

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  1. Fujian Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced High-Field Superconducting Materials and Engineering, Fuzhou, 350117, China

    J. J. Qin, Y. T. Liu & Y. Zhao

  2. College of Physics and Energy, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350117, China

    J. J. Qin, Y. T. Liu & Y. Zhao

  3. Chengdu Development Center of Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering Physics, Chengdu, 610200, China

    Y. Yang

  4. Key Laboratory of Magnetic Levitation Technologies and Maglev Trains, Superconductivity and New Energy R&D Center, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China

    L. Wang, H. H. Sun, C. Ke, C. H. Cheng & Y. Zhao

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Qin, J.J., Yang, Y., Wang, L. et al. Influence of Hydrocarbon Doping on Critical Current Density and Percolation Behavior of MgB2. J Supercond Nov Magn 35, 415–422 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-021-06096-2

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