title: Enhancement of superconducting critical current density by Fe impurity substitution in NbSe2single crystals and the vortex pinning mechanism.
abstract: Magnetization measurements have been used to determine the effect of magnetic impurities (Fe) on the Larkin-Ovchinnikov (LO) 3D collective pinning model in NbSe2single crystals. Upon increasing the concentration of Fe impurities, the superconducting critical current density enhances appreciably compared to pure NbSe2reflecting the fact that the addition of magnetic impurities assists in improving the practical applicability of NbSe2. The random pinning potential that is introduced by the Fe impurities also shows a considerable change in the interaction between the vortices and the core region, resulting in a competitive nature of single vortex, small bundle and large bundle pinning regimes in the H-T phase diagram. The intrinsic disorder in pure NbSe2single crystals shows δTcflux pinning; however, the extrinsic disorder created by Fe atoms in NbSe2shows δl flux pinning. Furthermore, the field dependence of the pinning force on both NbSe2and Fe-incorporated NbSe2represents the existence of point pinning and the surface pinning mechanism with a broadening of the fpcurves in the Fe-incorporated single crystals.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science & Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol Campus, Khandwa road, Indore 453552, India. pmshirage@iiti.ac.in paras.shirage@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rukshana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pervin
authors.forename: Manikanadan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krishnan
authors.forename: Amit Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Rana
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kannan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arumugam
authors.forename: Parasharam M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Shirage