Effect of Various C Sources Co-Doping on Transport Critical Current Density and Grains-Connectivity of MgB2/Fe Tapes

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In this paper, we have prepared a series of Fe sheathed MgB2 tapes with SiC, Malic acid and C9H11NO mono-and co-doping by in-situ powder-in-tube (PIT) method, and studied the effects of various C sources co-doping on transport critical current density and flux pinning of MgB2/Fe tapes. The results suggest by various C sources co-doping, the amount of C substitution for boron largely increase, comparing to SiC, Malic acid or C9H11NO mono-doped sample. For MgB2/Fe tapes with 5 mol% SiC+10 wt% Malic acid and 4 wt% C9H11NO+10 wt% Malic acid co-doping, the transport Jc at 4.2 K and 10 T are 14.8 and 13.5 kA/cm2, respectively, which are clearly higher than the Jc of these dopants mono-doped samples. Furthermore, it is found that at the 4 wt.% C9H11NO doped MgB2, the poor in-field Jc should be attributing to the cracks at grains boundary, which results in the bad grains-connectivity.

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Materials Science Forum (Volumes 745-746)

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February 2013

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