A Device for Measuring High-TC Superconductor Transition Temperature with Electric Transport and AC Susceptibility Methods Based on Small Cryocooler Cooling

Abstract:

A device for measuring high-TC superconducting transition temperature in a small cryocooler is described which allows a samples temperature to fall steadily from room temperature to 45K. This cryocooler not only meets the high-TC superconductors measurement requirements, but also yields accurate measurement results under ambient conditions. In this device, two measurement methods for measuring high-TC superconducting transition temperature are applied: the electric transport and the AC susceptibility. The former adopts a four-wire method to eliminate the contact resistance between the leads and the sample. During the measurement process the current reversal method for datum processing is applied to eliminate the thermoelectric voltages; this ensures the repeatability error less than 0.4K in the measurement of the superconducting transition temperature. The AC susceptibility method adopts a lock-in amplifier to provide an AC voltage signal for the primary coil, and then lock-in amplifier is used to measure the electrical signals of the secondary coil according to the AC magnetic susceptibility values. The advantage of this device is that by merely changing the position of the sample in the vacuum chamber, the R-T curve and the χ-T curve of a superconducting sample in the same temperature range can be automatically recorded, which provides reliable data for high-TC superconductor transition curve measurement.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 745-746)
• Pages: 152-157
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.745-746.152
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: San Sheng Wang, Xiao Shuai Ning, Xiang Hua Chu, Hua Li
• Keywords: AC Susceptibility Method, Electric Transport Method, High-T_c Transition Temperature

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