Fluxon Pinning by Artificial Magnetic Arrays |
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Authors: | D. J. Morgan J. B. Ketterson |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, USA;(2) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208;(3) Materials Research Center, USA |
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Abstract: | The field dependent transport properties of superconducting niobium films, which are modulated by a regular array of non-magnetic and magnetic normal-metal inclusions (dots), have been investigated. Strong peaks in the critical current are seen for fields at which the vortex density in the superconductor is some rational or sub-rational multiple of the dot density. This commensurate peak effect is enhanced for the magnetic dot arrays when the dots are magnetized in a direction parallel to the applied magnetic field and suppressed when they are anti-aligned. Qualitative information on the strength of this dot-vortex interaction is inferred from the commensurate peaks present and missing for different regular lattices. |
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