Very strong intrinsic flux pinning and vortex avalanches in superconducting single crystals

XL Wang, SR Ghorbani, SI Lee, SX Dou, CT Lin… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We report that the (Ba, K) Fe 2 As 2 crystal with T c= 32 K shows a pinning potential, U 0, as
high as 10 4 K, with U 0 showing very little field dependence. The (Ba, K) Fe 2 As 2 single …

Thin film growth and device fabrication of iron-based superconductors

H Hiramatsu, T Katase, T Kamiya… - Journal of the Physical …, 2011 - journals.jps.jp
Iron-based superconductors have received much attention as a new family of high-
temperature superconductors owing to their unique properties and distinct differences from …

Pauli-limiting effects in the upper critical fields of a clean LiFeAs single crystal

S Khim, B Lee, JW Kim, ES Choi, GR Stewart… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We have investigated the temperature dependence of the upper critical field H c 2 (T) in a
LiFeAs single crystal by direct measurements of resistivity under static magnetic fields up to …

Intrinsic pinning on structural domains in underdoped single crystals of

R Prozorov, MA Tanatar, N Ni, A Kreyssig, S Nandi… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
Critical current density was studied in single crystals of Ba (Fe 1− x Co x) 2 As 2 for the
values of x spanning the entire doping phase diagram. A noticeable enhancement was …

Evidence for dominant Pauli paramagnetic effect in the upper critical field of single-crystalline

S Khim, JW Kim, ES Choi, Y Bang, M Nohara… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We investigated the temperature dependence of the upper critical fields H c 2 (T) of a
superconducting FeTe 0.6 Se 0.4 single crystal by measuring its resistivity in static magnetic …

Observation of the Josephson Effect in Single Crystal Junctions

X Zhang, YS Oh, Y Liu, L Yan, KH Kim, RL Greene… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We have fabricated c-axis Josephson junctions on single crystals of Ba 1-x K x Fe 2 As 2 by
using Pb as the counterelectrode in two geometries, planar and point contact. Junctions in …

Comparative study of upper critical field and second magnetization peak in hole- and electron-doped superconductor

DL Sun, Y Liu, CT Lin - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2009 - APS
A comparative study of the upper critical field H c 2 and second magnetization peak H sp
was performed using high-quality single crystals of hole-doped Ba 0.68 K 0.32 Fe 2 As 2 …

Doping-dependent critical current properties in K, Co, and P-doped single crystals

S Ishida, D Song, H Ogino, A Iyo, H Eisaki, M Nakajima… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
In order to establish the doping dependence of the critical current properties in the iron-
based superconductors, the in-plane critical current density J c of BaF e 2 A s 2-based …

Pseudoisotropic Upper Critical Field in Cobalt-Doped Epitaxial Films

SA Baily, Y Kohama, H Hiramatsu, B Maiorov… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We present resistivity measurements of the complete superconducting upper critical field (H
c 2) phase diagram as a function of angle (θ) and temperature (T) for cobalt-doped SrFe 2 …

Fishtail effect and vortex dynamics in LiFeAs single crystals

AK Pramanik, L Harnagea, C Nacke, AUB Wolter… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We investigate the fishtail effect, critical current density (J c), and vortex dynamics in LiFeAs
single crystals. The sample exhibits a second peak (SP) in the magnetization loop only with …