Magnetic pinning of flux lattice in superconducting- nanomagnet hybrids

Strong superconducting pinning effects are observed from magnetic landscapes produced by arrays of circular rings with varying magnetic remanent states. The collective and the background pinning of superconducting Nb films is strongly enhanced by the stray magnetic field produced by an array of circ...

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Autores: Pérez de Lara, David, Castaño, F. J., Ng, B. G., Körner, H. S., Dumas, R. K., González Herrera, Elvira María, Liu, Kai, Ross,, C. A., Schuller, Ivan K., Vicent López, José Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/42674
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42674
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:538.9
Vortex
Física de materiales
Física del estado sólido
2211 Física del Estado Sólido
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Sumario:Strong superconducting pinning effects are observed from magnetic landscapes produced by arrays of circular rings with varying magnetic remanent states. The collective and the background pinning of superconducting Nb films is strongly enhanced by the stray magnetic field produced by an array of circular Ni rings magnetized to form “onion” (bidomain) states. On the other hand, when the same rings are magnetized into vortex (flux-closed) states, or are randomly magnetized, the superconducting pinning is much smaller. The greatest pinning is produced when the superconducting vortex lattice motion is along a direction in which there is a strong magnetic field variation.