Experimental data of the hall bar magnetic field as a function of the external magnetic field for temperatures at and above 4.29K (A) and for temperatures at and below 3.3K (B).

Experimental data of the hall bar magnetic field as a function of the external magnetic field for temperatures at and above 4.29K (A) and for temperatures at and below 3.3K (B).

Source publication
Preprint
Full-text available
Vanadium is an elemental type-II superconductor which has a pure superconducting phase, a vortex phase, and a non-superconducting phase. We designed and carried out a low-budget experiment in our undergraduate physics lab to measure the magnetic field a close distance from the surface of a pure Vanadium disk sample isothermally with a Hall sensor a...

Contexts in source publication

Context 1
... varied both the temperature of the superconductor and the external magnetic field in the region of the sample, and we measured the magnetic field just above the surface of the Vanadium sample (Fig. 2). To create these plots, note that the Hall bar outputs a voltage signal, which we then anti-symmetrized then multiplied by the hall coefficient to deduce the magnetic field at the Hall bar. Further details on how the hall voltage is processed to obtain the magnetic field being observed by the hall bar is contained in the appendices. ...
Context 2
... this, we get that a 1 = B c1 (0) = 0.091T and a 2 = B c2 (0) = 0.216T . Using this, we produced a phase diagram for our Vanadium sample (Figure 2). ...
Context 3
... applied indium seal (0.06 milli-inch diameter wire) to the groove in the vacuum chamber ( Fig. D.2), then placed the vacuum chamber on the lid, and secured the vacuum chamber to the lid (with the sample inside) using 4-40 brass screws in a star pattern procedure to ensure uniform compression of the indium ...
Context 4
... short wires within the same twisted pair on opposite sides of the PCB corresponding to I + /I − and V + /V − . Take extra precaution in strain relieving these connections since this is likely where wires will break during the cooling process (as shown in Figure E.2), if any. Solder male connectors on the end of these short wires, and attach to the remaining female connectors once completed. ...

Similar publications

Preprint
Full-text available
A comprehensive study of the vortex phases and vortex dynamics is presented for a recently discovered high-temperature superconductor YH6 with Tc(onset) of 215 K under pressure of 200 GPa. Thermal activation energy U(0) is derived in the framework of thermally activated flux flow (TAFF) theory. The activation energy yields a power law dependence U(...