Small anisotropy, weak thermal fluctuations, and high field superconductivity in Co-doped iron pnictide Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2
- Florida State University
- ORNL
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
We performed high-field magnetotransport and magnetization measurements on a single crystal of the 122-phase iron pnictide Ba(Fe{sub 1-x}Co{sub x}){sub 2}As{sub 2}. Unlike the high-temperature superconductor cuprates and 1111-phase oxypnictides, Ba(Fe{sub 1-x}Co{sub x}){sub 2}As{sub 2} showed practically no broadening of the resistive transitions under magnetic fields up to 45 T. We report the temperature dependencies of the upper critical field H{sub c2} both parallel and perpendicular to the c-axis, the irreversibility field H{sub irr}{sup c}(T), and a rather unusual symmetric volume pinning force curve F{sub p}(H) suggestive of a strong pinning nanostructure. The anisotropy parameter {gamma} = H{sub c2}{sup ab}/H{sub c2}{sup c} deduced from the slopes of dH{sub c2}{sup ab}/dT = 4.9 T/K and dH{sub c2}{sup c}/dT = 2.5 T/K decreases from -2 near T{sub c}, to -1.5 at lower temperatures, much smaller than {gamma} for 1111 pnictides and high-T{sub c} cuprates.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1004949
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, Issue 6; ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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