Depinning of caged interstitial vortices in superconducting alpha-WGe films with an antidot lattice

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Rosseel, E [1 ]
VanBael, M [1 ]
Baert, M [1 ]
Jonckheere, R [1 ]
Moshchalkov, VV [1 ]
Bruynseraede, Y [1 ]
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[1] INTERUNIV MICROELECTR CTR, B-3001 LOUVAIN, BELGIUM
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10.1103/PhysRevB.53.R2983
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The magnetoresistance, critical currents, and voltage-current (V-I) characteristics have been studied in superconducting a-WGe films with a square lattice of cylindrical microholes (antidots). Besides a strong enhancement of the critical current caused by matching of the flux lines with the antidot lattice having a period d, two different dissipative regimes have been observed giving rise to a crossover in the [log(V)-log(I)] characteristics for magnetic fields above the first matching field B-1=B-phi=Phi(0)d(-2). This V-I behavior is caused by the coexistence of a weakly pinned interstitial vortex fluid and a strongly pinned vortex lattice at the antidots.
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