Behavior of a superconducting bulk in a running high-T_c superconducting maglev system(I):distribution of magnetic and electric field

A theoretical model of describing the electromagnetic and thermal dynamics of high-Tc superconducting bulks in a high-Tc superconducting Maglev system is built up.The model contains the effects of hysteresis-type loss,flux flow,flux creep,and thermal diffusion on the superconducting bulks in the Maglev system.As the first stage of this study,the behavior of magnetic and electric fields,as well as the distribution energy flow density in the superconducting bulk is studied.The results show that the flux flow and thermal diffusion affect the behaviors of the electromagnetic field in the high-Tc superconducting bulks in different ways;however,both of them contribute significantly to the energy dissipation of the superconducting bulks when they are used in the Maglev train.

Enhancement of flux pinning in GdBa_2Cu_3O_(7-y) bulks prepared by nanoparticle-powder-assisted method

High quality GdBa2Cu307-y （Gd123） textured bulks with Nd2BaCuO5 （Nd211） nanoparticle precipitations have been fabricated by a nanoparticle-powders-assisted MTG （melt-textured-growth） technique. The high density nanoscale flux pinning sites were introduced into Gd123 by mixing Nd211 nanoparticle powders （about 20-50 nm） with Gd123 nano-precursors before the MTG process. Microstructural analyses reveal that a large number of Nd211 nanoparticles with a size around 50-150 nm were inserted in the Gd123 matrix, forming a kind of superconducting nanocomposites. The critical current density at 77 K is systematically increased and the flux pinning behavior is significantly improved. The scaling behavior of the flux pinning force shows a magnetic field dependent feature with a peak located at hp≈0.4. This may be the fingerprint of melt-textured 123 compounds, which cannot be interpreted by the simple superposition of different types of elementary pinning sources.