Superconductivity at T=200K in Bismuth Cuprates Synthesized Using Solar Energy

Abstract

When investigating low-frequency (0.1 Hz) oscillations of miltiphase high-temperature cuprate superconductors (HTSC) Bi1,7Pb0,3Sr2Ca(n-1)CunOy (n=2-30), a wide attenuation peak with a maximal at T=200K detected. This peak was particularly pronounced in field cooling (FC) experiments, i.e. after abrupt cooling of the sample in the external magnetic field at the temperature T less Tc with subsequent slow warming up to room temperature with invariance of applied field. The attenuation peak height depended on the preliminary orientation (before cooling) of the samples in the measured permanent magnetic field H. On the one hand, it is well khow that, after the FC procedure and subsequent slow warming up, at the temperatures close to the critical temperature Tc, the attenuation peak associated with "melting" of the Abrikosov frozen vortex structure and its disappearance at T more Tc is detected in monophase samples. At the same time, in most multiphase bismuth HTSC samples, synthesized using solar energy and superfast quenching of the melt, the attenuation peak with the maximum at T=200K was observed. Depending on the conditions of synthesis, the attenuation peak could be two-humped and could be located in the temperature range much wider than Tc of the major superconducting phase. We assume that this is due to the existence of frozen magnetic fluxes (after FC) in superconducting "dropping" regions, which gradually (with increasing temperature) transfer into the normal state and release pinned vortex threads. This fact could be a sause of observed dissipative processes, so as also the evidence of the existence of superconductivity at T more 240K.