Fabrication and Characterization of YBa2Cu3Oy Superconducting Nanowires
LI Pei-Gang1, FU Xiu-Li1, CHEN Lei-Ming1, ZHANG Hai-Ying2, LI Ling-Hong3, TANG Wei-Hua1
1Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
2Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
3Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, RI 02881, USA
Fabrication and Characterization of YBa2Cu3Oy Superconducting Nanowires
LI Pei-Gang1;FU Xiu-Li1;CHEN Lei-Ming1;ZHANG Hai-Ying2;LI Ling-Hong3;TANG Wei-Hua1
1Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080
2Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
3Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, RI 02881, USA
Abstract: Ordered YBa2Cu3Oy nanowires have been fabricated by filling YBa2Cu3Oy melting liquid into the pores of the anodized alumina templates. X-ray powder diffraction proves that YBa2Cu3Oy nanowires crystallized in the Y-123 structure. The temperature dependence of ac susceptibility indicates a superconducting transition at 91K for the YBa2Cu3Oy nanowire array.