Influence of out-of-plane disorder formed by low-temperature sintering on carbohydrate-doped MgB2 wire

Structural disorder within grains formed by carbon doping is widely known to enhance the in-field transport critical current performance of MgB2 wire. The structural formation usually requires high-temperature sintering above 600 °C due to low reactivity of the dopant. In this study, we selected a c...

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Published in:Ceramics international 2020-09, Vol.46 (13), p.21752-21756
Main Authors: Maeda, Minoru, Patel, Dipak, Kumakura, Hiroaki, Nishijima, Gen, Matsumoto, Akiyoshi, Kim, Su-Hun, Choi, Seyong
Format: Article
Language:English
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Carbon doping
Low-temperature sintering
MgB2
X-ray methods
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Summary:Structural disorder within grains formed by carbon doping is widely known to enhance the in-field transport critical current performance of MgB2 wire. The structural formation usually requires high-temperature sintering above 600 °C due to low reactivity of the dopant. In this study, we selected a carbohydrate (malic acid) that has a low-decomposition temperature as the carbon dopant and performed low-temperature sintering (below 600 °C) to introduce greater disorder within the MgB2 grains. We revealed that the doping and low-temperature sintering process cause severe disorder, especially along the out-of-plane (c-axis) direction. The disordered formation, in addition to the in-plane disorder combined with well-connected grains, eventually raised the in-field transport performance.
ISSN:0272-8842
1873-3956
DOI:10.1016/j.ceramint.2020.05.284