In realistic situations, a typical scenario for applications of type II superconductors
necessarily includes vortices, usually in the presence of currents. Under these …

Local polarization of magnetic materials has become a well-known and widely used method
for storing binary information. Numerous applications in our daily life such as credit cards …

A graded distribution of antidots in superconducting a-Mo 79 Ge 21 thin films has been
investigated by magnetization and magneto-optical imaging measurements. The pinning …

A very important feature of superconductors is the Meissner and Ochsenfeld effect—
expulsion of weak external magnetic fields, H, from their interior. Therefore, a …

Crucially important for application of type-II superconductor films is the stability of the vortex
matter–magnetic flux lines penetrating the material. If some vortices get detached from …

The influence of a conducting layer on the magnetic flux penetration in a superconducting
Nb film is studied by magneto-optical imaging. The metallic layer partially covering the …

In this paper, the anisotropic flux avalanche processes in thin square-shaped type-II
superconducting films are numerically investigated by solving the coupled nonlinear …

In 1976, Larkin and Ovchinnikov [Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 68, 1915 (1975)[Sov. Phys.–JETP 41,
960 (1976)]] predicted that vortex matter in superconductors driven by an electrical current …

We have established a link between the global ac response and the local flux distribution of
superconducting films by combining magnetic ac susceptibility, dc magnetization, and …

Combined voltage and magneto-optical study of magnetic flux flow in superconducting NbN
films is reported. The nanosecond-scale voltage pulses appearing during thermomagnetic …