Nanoscale grains, high irreversibility field and large critical current density as a function of high-energy ball milling time in C-doped magnesium diboride

Magnesium diboride (MgB2) powder was mechanically alloyed by high-energy ball milling with C to a composition of Mg(B0.95C0.05)2 and then sintered at 1000 deg C in a hot isostatic press. Milling times varied from 1 to 3000 min. Full C incorporation required only 30-60 min of milling. The grain size...

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Veröffentlicht in:Superconductor science & technology 2008-03, Vol.21 (3), p.035009-035009 (10)
Hauptverfasser: Senkowicz, B J, Mungall, R J, Zhu, Y, Jiang, J, Voyles, P M, Hellstrom, E E, Larbalestier, D C
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Zusammenfassung:Magnesium diboride (MgB2) powder was mechanically alloyed by high-energy ball milling with C to a composition of Mg(B0.95C0.05)2 and then sintered at 1000 deg C in a hot isostatic press. Milling times varied from 1 to 3000 min. Full C incorporation required only 30-60 min of milling. The grain size of sintered samples decreased with increased milling time to < 30 nm for 20-50 h of milling. Milling had a weak detrimental effect on the connectivity. A strong irreversibility field (H*) increase (from 13.3 to 17.2 T at 4.2 K) due to increased milling time was observed and correlated linearly with inverse grain size (1/d). As a result, the high-field Jc benefited greatly from lengthy powder milling. Jc (8 T, 4.2 K) peaked at > 80 000 A cm-2 with 1200 min of milling compared with only ~26 000 A cm-2 for 60 min of milling. This non-compositional performance increase is attributed to grain refinement of the unsintered powder by milling, and to the probable suppression of grain growth by milling-induced MgO nanodispersions.
ISSN:0953-2048
1361-6668
DOI:10.1088/0953-2048/21/3/035009