Abstract
Abstract Good-quality melt-textured YBa2Cu3O7-x materials with Y2BaCuO5 non-superconducting inclusions were irradiated with 2GeV gold ions in order to produce a surface layer with columnar defects. The finaL goal is to gain a basie understanding of the role of the surface columnar defects in determining those magnetic properties of the materials that are related to the vortex confinement. The particie energy and the sample thickness were chosen in such a way that the percentage of irradiated volume is about 10%. In the paper the intrinsic structure and the damage morphology were analysed by means of transmission electron microscopy studies in both cross-section and plan-view geometry. As a result, the columnar defect density, size and shape were obtained. The irradiation produces parallel heavily damaged tracks whose diameter is between 3 and 6nm. The overlapping of some columnar defects was highlighted and had to be taken into account to understand the superconducting properties of irradiated samples. Th...
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