Role of self-irradiation defects on the ageing of 239PuCoGa 5

  • F. Jutier
  • , J. C. Griveau
  • , C. J. Van Der Beek
  • , E. Colineau
  • , F. Wastin
  • , J. Rebizant
  • , P. Boulet
  • , T. Wiss
  • , H. Thiele
  • , E. Simoni

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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 languageEnglish
Article number57008
JournalEPL
Volume78
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2007

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