Effect of carbon black doping on the microstructure and critical properties of MgB2 superconductor

JH Lim, KT Kim, EC Park, CM Lee, JH Shim… - Physica C …, 2008 - Elsevier
We selected amorphous, nano-size carbon black (10–30nm) as a dopant for MgB2
superconductor to improve critical current density (Jc) at high magnetic field. We fabricated …

Effects of nano-carbon doping and sintering temperature on microstructure and properties of MgB2

JH Lim, JH Shim, JH Choi, JH Park, W Kim… - Physica C …, 2009 - Elsevier
We fabricated nano-carbon (NC) doped MgB2 bulks using an in situ process in order to
improve the critical current density (Jc) under a high magnetic field and evaluated the …

Enhanced Critical Current Density in MgB2 Superconductor via Si and C Coadditions

KY Tan, KL Tan, KB Tan, KP Lim, SA Halim… - … of superconductivity and …, 2011 - Springer
In this study, nanosize Silicon and Carbon (Si+ C) were reacted with MgB 2 in order to
enhance the critical current density. The polycrystalline bulks were synthesized by the direct …

Effects of B4C doping on critical current properties of MgB2 superconductor

A Yamamoto, J Shimoyama, S Ueda… - Superconductor …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
The relationships between microstructures, crystallinity and critical current properties for B 4
C doped MgB 2 bulks, MgB 2− 5x (B 4 C) x with x= 0, 0.04, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.4, were …

Effect of carbon nanotube doping on critical current density of MgB2 superconductor

SX Dou, WK Yeoh, J Horvat, M Ionescu - Applied physics letters, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of doping MgB2 with carbon nanotubes on transition temperature, lattice
parameters, critical current density and flux pinning was studied for MgB2xCx with x 0, 0.05 …

Effects of TiC doping on the upper critical field of MgB2 superconductors

SC Yan, L Zhou, G Yan, YF Lu - Physica C: Superconductivity and its …, 2008 - Elsevier
TiC doped MgB2 bulks were fabricated by two-step reaction method. The sample with a
nominal compositions of Mg (B0. 95 (TiC) 0.05) 4 was first sintered at 1000° C for 0.5 h. An …

Critical current densities in Ag-added bulk MgB2

M Muralidhar, K Inoue, MR Koblischka… - … C: Superconductivity and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In previous studies, we found that bulk MgB 2 contained numerous voids in various shapes
and sizes. With the aim of improving the critical current density as well as the mechanical …

Improved critical current densities of bulk MgB2 using carbon-coated amorphous boron

M Muralidhar, M Higuchi, M Jirsa, P Diko… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, we report on a further improvement of the critical current density of the sintered
bulk MgB 2 material utilizing the optimized sintering temperature combined with a varying …

Optimization of sintering conditions in bulk MgB2 material for improvement of critical current density

M Muralidhar, K Nozaki, H Kobayashi, XL Zeng… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The present investigation focuses on methods to further improve the J c values of disk-
shaped bulk MgB 2 superconductors by optimizing the sintering conditions. We prepared …

High critical current density of bulk superconductor doped with Ti and sintered at ambient pressure

Y Zhao, Y Feng, CH Cheng, L Zhou, Y Wu… - Applied Physics …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
Ti-doped MgB 2 superconductors with different doping levels were prepared by solid-state
reaction at ambient pressure. The density, diamagnetic signal, and J c of the samples …