We measured the flux of a wide bicrystal grain boundary of YBa2Cu3O7-δ film, cooled to 77 K in a field of 10 μT, using a superconducting thin-film coil and Nb-based superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). When the applied field was changed to, and above, a small threshold value, the sample showed random switching noises with a sharp increase in low-frequency noise power. The results suggested that there was long-distance movement of vortices over 20–500 μm within the grain boundary, driven by the shielding current. The vortex movement was suppressed to lengths of less than 1 μm in a slotted grain boundary by making an array of SQUIDs that can hold vortices stably. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
Published in:
Applied Physics Letters
(Volume:78
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Issue:
12
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Date of Publication:
Mar 2001
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1715
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1717
- ISSN :
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0003-6951
- Digital Object Identifier :
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10.1063/1.1355669
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Journals & Magazines
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18 June 2009
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Mar 2001