Abstract
Magnetization measurements were performed on single crystals of to study the effect of fast neutron irradiation on flux pinning and the critical magnetization current. Neutron irradiation up to a fluence of 8.16× n/ systematically enhanced the magnitude and reduced the anisotropy of the critical magnetization current compared to unirradiated samples. The largest increases in the critical magnetization current occurred at 77 K. There was a slight linear decrease in the transition temperature with neutron fluence.
- Received 27 August 1987
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.36.7151
©1987 American Physical Society