Radiation damage to Fe-superconductors by 1.5 MeV Ar-beam

17^th International Conference on Emerging Materials and Nanotechnolgy

March 07-08, 2019 | Berlin, Germany

Udayan De, K R Sahu, D Sanyal, Th Wolf, F Sing, P K Kulriya4 S A Khan, S Ojha, A Saha and D Kanjilal

Kendriya Vihar, Kolkata, India
VEC Centre, West Bengal, India
KIT, Germany
IUAC, New Delhi, India
UGC-DAE CSR, Kolkata Centre, India
Egra S S B College, West Bengal, India

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Material Sci Eng

Abstract :

Shattering the textbook idea that magnetic impurities destroy superconductivity, the new Fe pnictides superconduct at high temperature up to Tc=56 K. They interestingly lie somewhere between the strongly correlated cuprate and the weakly-correlated conventional supercondcutors. Their fabrication into superconducting wires with fairly high critical current density promise potential use in fusion devices, accelerators etc. So, ion radiation damage investigation is desirable in these materials. Here, ~200 micron thick single crystals of Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 for x=0.000 (non-superconducting), and x=0.057 (superconducting with Tc=19.5 K) & 0.102 (superconducting with Tc= 22.5 K) have been produced for studying radiation damage by 55 MeV Li and 1.5 MeV Ar -beams. Damage by the heavier ion, 1.5 MeV Ar-beam, is reported here. The samples have been characterized by Raman Spectroscopy, Photoluminescence Analysis, SEM with EDAX, RBS and X-ray Diffraction. XRD peaks show gradual decrease of the lattice parameter c due to increasing Co-substitution: c=13.0314 Ã? for x=0.000, c=12.999 Ã? for x=0.057 & 12.988 Ã? for x=0.102. Sharp x-ray peaks in the un-irradiated samples broden progressively on irradiation to fluences 0.2Ã?1015, 2.5Ã?1015 and 10Ã?1015 Ar-ions/cm2, indicating defect generation. Raman shifts due to these low energy heavy ion irradiations have been significant. Detailed analysis of all results will be presented.

Biography :

Udayan De has completed his PhD from IACS, Kolkata, India in 1978. He worked as a Humboldt Fellow in Nuclear Solid State Physics in the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. For 1982-2010, he served the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, as a Scientist specializing in Superconductivity, Radiation Damage and other Materials Science topics. Then he has been Guest Professor in Engineering and Science Institutes, and Research Collaborator of DAE and university laboratories. With about 100 journal publications and other papers, he has been PhD guide and PhD examiner for several universities, and also on editorial boards.

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