Abstract
Low-temperature accumulation and annealing experiments, in conjunction with electrical resitivity and critical current density measurements, were used to study the ageing of the actinide superconductor PuCoGa5. These measurements reveal that 2-nm-sized non-superconducting point-like regions are the main damages formed during room temperature ageing; smaller point-like defects are irrelevant to transport properties. Defect sizes and densities deduced from experiment agree with Transmission Electron Microscopy observations.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 57008 |
| Journal | EPL |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2007 |
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