Abstract
By combining experimental results and a simple model, we offer here an explanation for the role played by the low-angle grain boundaries and the doping with α-Al2O3 nanoparticles in the trapping of the magnetic flux in Bi1.65Pb0.35Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+δ (Bi-2223) ceramic samples. Our model correlates the size of the nanoparticles, properties of the superconducting matrix, and the magnetic flux trapped at the intragranular planar defects, the so-called Abrikosov-Josephson vortices. The results indicate that the role played by the doping with α-Al2O3 nanoparticles is to pin the AJ vortices at the grain boundaries with misorientation angles $\theta \sim 10^{\circ }$. We also argue that a similar procedure for identifying conditions for the trapping of the magnetic flux may be applied to other superconducting materials doped with non-magnetic nanoparticles.
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