Ac Permeability Measurement for Inter- and Intragrain Critical Current Densities in Oxide Superconductors

Abstract

A simple measuring method to discriminate between inter- and intragrain current densities in oxide superconductors under given magnetic fields and temperatures is proposed. This is a measurement of the imaginary part of the ac permeability or susceptibility as a function of the ac field amplitude. In this method, the analysis used to derive the penetration depth of the ac field in Campbell's method or the waveform analysis method is not necessary. This method is useful when the value of the penetration field into the grains and that into the bulk specimen are remarkably different.