Magnetic property improvement of niobium doped with rare earth elements

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/23/5/057403

Abstract A new idea is proposed by the PKU group to improve the magnetic properties of the Type-Ⅱ superconductor niobium. Rare earth elements like scandium and yttrium are doped into ingot niobium during the smelting processes. A series of experiments have been done since 2010. The preliminary testing results show that the magnetic properties of niobium materials have changed with different doping elements and proportions while the superconductive transition temperature does not change very much. This method may increase the superheating magnetic field of niobium so as to improve the performance of the niobium cavity, which is a key component of SRF accelerators. A Tesla-type single-cell cavity made of scandium-doped niobium is being fabricated.

Keywords: niobium rare earth element impurity magnetization curve

Received: 20 September 2013
Revised: 17 November 2013
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PACS:	74.70.Ad	(Metals; alloys and binary compounds)
	74.25.Op	(Mixed states, critical fields, and surface sheaths)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11175008).

Corresponding Authors: Jiao Fei
E-mail: fjiao@pku.edu.cn

About author: 74.70.Ad; 74.25.Op

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Jiang Tao (江涛), He Fei-Si (贺斐思), Jiao Fei (焦飞), He Fa (何法), Lu Xiang-Yang (鲁向阳), Zhao Kui (赵夔), Zhao Hong-Yun (赵红运), You Yu-Song (游雨松), Chen Lin (陈林) Magnetic property improvement of niobium doped with rare earth elements 2014 Chin. Phys. B 23 057403

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