Observation of magnetic flux pinning in a thin Nb film with a square lattice of nickel dots

A. Terentiev; D. B. Watkins; L. E. De Long; D. J. Morgan; J. B. Ketterson

doi:10.1016/S0921-4534(99)00452-9

Observation of magnetic flux pinning in a thin Nb film with a square lattice of nickel dots

A. Terentiev, D. B. Watkins, L. E. De Long, D. J. Morgan, J. B. Ketterson

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The pinning of magnetic flux by a square lattice of ferromagnetic Ni dots embedded in a superconducting Nb film was investigated. In the case of demagnetized Ni dots, both AC susceptibility and DC magnetization data exhibit clear anomalies at the first and second matching fields, H₁≈13 Oe and H₂ = 2H₁, respectively. The second matching anomaly is clearly observed in both AC and DC data only when a remanent magnetization of Ni dots is induced along the external magnetic field, which is oriented perpendicular to the Nb film plane. The observed behavior supports theoretical predictions of a substantial contribution to the flux pinning energy by anisotropic interactions between the superconducting condensate of Nb and the Ni dot magnetization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications
Volume	324
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-4534(99)00452-9
State	Published - Oct 15 1999

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Research at the University of Kentucky was supported by the US Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Research, Division of Materials Science, under Grant #DE-FG02-97ER45653. Research at Northwestern University was supported by the Materials Research Center grant DMR-9309061.

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