Publication Date:
1996-11-15
Description:
The microscopic mechanism of the matching effect in a superconductor, which manifested itself as the production of peaks or cusps in the critical current at specific values of the applied magnetic field, was investigated with Lorentz microscopy to allow direct observation of the behavior of vortices in a niobium thin film having a regular array of artificial defects. Vortices were observed to form regular and consequently rigid lattices at the matching magnetic field, at its multiples, and at its fractions. The dynamic observation furthermore revealed that vortices were most difficult to move at the matching field, whereas excess vortices moved easily.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Harada -- Kamimura -- Kasai -- Matsuda -- Tonomura -- Moshchalkov -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Nov 15;274(5290):1167-70.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉K. Harada, O. Kamimura, H. Kasai, T. Matsuda, A. Tonomura, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Hatoyama, Saitama 350-03, Japan. V. V. Moshchalkov, Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8895460" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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