AC SUSCEPTIBILITY, RESISTIVITY AND SPECIFIC-HEAT OF THE CUBIC SUPERCONDUCTOR BA0.6K0.4BIO3

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SAVVIDES, N [1 ]
COLLOCOTT, SJ [1 ]
ANDRIKIDIS, C [1 ]
MULLER, KH [1 ]
VANCE, ER [1 ]
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[1] ANSTO, SYDNEY, NSW 2234, AUSTRALIA
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PHYSICA C-SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS | 1990年 / 171卷 / 1-2期
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10.1016/0921-4534(90)90472-Q
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O59 [应用物理学];
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AC susceptibility, magnetotransport and specific heat measurements on single phase bulk polycrystalline Ba0.6K0.4BiO3, with Tc{reversed tilde equals}31 K, are reported. The complex AC susceptibility, χ = χ′ + iχ″, measured in AC fields of 0.001-50 G rms, shows both intragrain and intergrain components characteristics of a granular superconductor, where the positions of the χ″ intra- and intergranular peaks are strongly field dependent. A value of 18 T is obtained for the upper critical field, Hc2(0), from measurements of the superconducting resistive transition as a function of DC magnetic field. The coherence length, ξ(0), is determined to be 43 Å. Specific heat, Cp, measurements from 0.5 to 20 K show no evidence of a term that has a linear temperature dependence or an upturn in Cp/T. © 1990.
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