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Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Pb and In Nanofilaments in Asbestos near the Superconducting Transition
Tekijät: A. V. Chernyaev, N. Yu. Mikhailin, D. V. Shamshur, Yu. A. Kumzerov, A. V. Fokin, A. E. Kalmykov, R. V. Parfen’ev, L.M. Sorokin, A. Lashkul
Kustantaja: Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Julkaisuvuosi: 2018
Journal: Fizika Tverdogo Tela / Physics of the Solid State
Vuosikerta: 60
Numero: 10
Aloitussivu: 1935
Lopetussivu: 1941
Sivujen määrä: 7
ISSN: 1063-7834
eISSN: 1090-6460
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783418100050
Bulk nanocomposites based on superconducting metals Pb and In embedded into matrices of natural chrysotile asbestos with the nanotube internal diameter d ~ 6 nm have been fabricated and studied. The low-temperature electrical and magnetic properties of the nanocomposites demonstrate the superconducting transition with the transition critical temperature Tc ≈ (7.18 ± 0.02) K for the Pb–asbestos nanocomposite (this temperature is close to Tc bulk = 7.196 K for bulk Pb). The electrical measurements show that In nanofilaments in asbestos have Tc ~ 3.5–3.6 K that is higher than Tc bulk = 3.41 K for bulk In. It is shown that the temperature smearing of the superconducting transition in the temperature dependences of the resistance R(T) ΔT ≈ 0.06 K for the Pb–asbestos and ΔT ≈ 1.8 K for the In–asbestos are adequately described by the fluctuation Aslamazov–Larkin and Langer–Ambegaokar theories. The resistive measurements show that the critical magnetic fields of the nanofilaments extrapolated to T = 0 K are Hc(0) ~ 47 kOe for Pb in asbestos and Hc(0) ~ 1.5 kOe for In in asbestos; these values are significantly higher than the values for the bulk materials (HH bulk c Hcbulk
= 803 Oe for Pb and H bulk c Hcbulk
= 285 Oe for In). The results of the electrical measurements for Pb‒asbestos and In–asbestos agree with the data for the magnetic-field dependences of the magnetic moment in these nanocomposites.