Effect of Tungsten (W) Substitution on the Physical Properties of Bi-(2223) Superconductors

• DOI: 10.1007/s10948-013-2351-9
• Publication Date: 2013-09-06T03:54:33Z
• Authors: Nihal Türk; Hakan Gündoğmuş; Mustafa Akyol; Z. Deniz Yakıncı; Ahmet Ekicibil; Bekir Özçelik
• Keywords: Critical current; XRD; SEM; 0103 physical sciences; M-H; Bi-based cuprates; 01 natural sciences

The superconducting Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2Ca2Cu3−x W x O10+y (x=0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15) bulk samples were prepared by the solid-state reaction method. The effects of W substitution on the BSCCO system have been investigated by the electrical resistivity (ρ-T), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), magnetic hysteresis and critical current density measurements. It has been found that the Bi-(2212) low-T C phase is formed for all the substitution levels, together with the Bi-(2223) high-T C phase. The results obtained from the XRD data show that the Bi-(2223) phase gradually transforms into the Bi-(2212) phase with increasing W substituting for Cu. In addition, from the magnetization measurements at the temperatures below the zero resistance temperatures of the samples, we have observed that a decreasing in magnitude of |M| with the increasing measurement temperature and W concentration. Therefore, the decreasing of |M| related to superconducting volume seems to imply an existence of flux-pinning centers in our samples.