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Oxidation in Ca/K-1144 iron-based superconductors polycrystalline compounds

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Zuhawn Sung
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Anastasiya Duchenko
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G. Celentano
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Jaeyel Lee
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Xiaobing Hu
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Nicola Pompeo
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Francesca Varsano
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Andrea Masi *
DOI:10.1016/j.supcon.2023.100062delete
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Iron-based superconductors (IBSCs) are a class of material under investigation for the development of super-conducting wires in the low-temperature-high magnetic fields power application. Among the various families of IBSCs, the 1144 CaKFe4As4 compound is a promising material able to achieve outstanding superconducting properties with a cheap and simple chemical composition. Oxidation, in these compounds, is considered an obstacle for high intergranular critical current density, Jc,GB. A study devoted to the evaluation of oxidation phenomena and their effects on the superconducting properties is thus needed in order to fully understand the involved mechanisms. From the evaluation of polycrystalline samples obtained by a mechanochemically assisted synthesis route, a degradation of the critical temperature and critical currents has been observed con-currently with oxygen accumulation at grain boundaries in open porosities. However, the crystalline structure at an atomic level seems not affected, as well as intragranular superconducting properties assessed by means of calorimetric methods. These results suggest that loss of superconducting properties in Ca/K-1144 compounds following oxidation is significantly associated with the worsening of grain connectivity.
Keywords:
Grain boundaries
Superconductivity
Oxidation
Microstructure
Iron based superconductors
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