Lateral magnetic stiffness under different parameters in a high-temperature superconductor levitation system

Magnetic stiffness determines the stability of a high-temperature superconductor(HTS) magnetic levitation system.The quantitative properties of the physical and geometrical parameters that affect the stiffness of HTS levitation systems should be identified for improving the stiffness by some effective methods. The magnetic stiffness is directly related to the first-order derivative of the magnetic force with respect to the corresponding displacement, which indicates that the effects of the parameters on the stiffness should be different from the relationships between the forces and the same parameters.In this paper, we study the influences of some physical and geometrical parameters, including the strength of the external magnetic field(B0) produced by a rectangular permanent magnet(PM), critical current density(Jc), the PM-to-HTS area ratio(α), and thickness ratio(β), on the lateral stiffness by using a numerical approach under zero-field cooling(ZFC)and field cooling(FC) conditions. In the first and second passes of the PM, the lateral stiffness at most of lateral positions essentially increases with B0 increasing and decreases with β increasing in ZFC and FC. The largest lateral stiffness at every lateral position is almost produced by the minimum value of Jc, which is obviously different from the lateral force–Jc relation. The α-dependent lateral stiffness changes with some parameters, which include the cooling conditions of the bulk HTS, lateral displacement, and movement history of the PM. These findings can provide some suggestions for improving the lateral stiffness of the HTS levitation system.     

NdFeB永磁轨道上方YBaCuO块材的悬浮稳定性与场冷位置间关系

如何获得稳定悬浮是高温超导磁悬浮系统的一个重大问题.高温超导体在外磁场中所受的悬浮力和导向力是两个衡量系统悬浮稳定性的重要参数.本文实验研究了场冷情况下NdFeB永磁轨道上方YBaCuO块材在竖直运动和水平运动时所受悬浮力和导向力的情况,并且根据Bean模型开发了数值计算程序用于悬浮力和导向力的计算分析.不同竖直场冷高度下计算值和实验值获得了较好的一致性.实验结果和计算结果都显示出永磁轨道场中高温超导体所受的两个力与其场冷历史有着密切的关系,也就是说超导体的悬浮稳定性受场冷历史影响程度较大.不同的竖直场冷高度,其最大悬浮力的变化趋势和最大导向力的变化趋势相反.较小的水平场冷位置导致了较大的导向力和较大的磁滞.根据上述结果,为了获得较优的悬浮稳定性,本文推荐了可行的场冷高度范围和有效的高温超导体组合方式.     

场冷条件下超导块材的吸引力与排斥力

基于K im临界态模型,通过考虑超导块材内部屏蔽电流的穿透历史过程,其计算了不同场冷条件下高温超导悬浮系统的悬浮力。其计算结果与实验结果吻合很好。结果显示:超导块材的最大吸引力随场冷高度的升高呈指数关系减小;达到最大吸引力的悬浮高度随场冷高度的增加近似呈线性关系增长。最大排斥力随场冷高度的变化曲线存在临界值:当场冷高度小于临界值时,最大排斥力呈线性关系增加;反之,最大排斥力呈指数关系增长。悬浮力与场冷高度的这些变化规律可以用超导块材内部屏蔽电流的穿透情况进行很好地解释,为超导块材的实际工业应用提供了重要的理论依据。     

永磁轨道上方高温超导块材各向异性对悬浮力弛豫特性的影响

采用顶部熔融织构生长法制备的高温超导块材YBCO通常有5个生长区域．通过捕获磁通实验研究,人们发现高温超导块材内部生长区域及边界的捕获磁通能力不同,存在明显的各向异性．面向高温超导磁悬浮应用,本文比较研究了3块不同的高温超导块材YBCO组合在永磁轨道上方悬浮力弛豫特性．实验结果表明,无论场冷还是零场冷情况,块材籽晶生长...     

零场冷和场冷方式下高温超导块材最大悬浮力关系

文章通过对15块高温超导块材与永磁轨道相互作用的悬浮力测试,比较了零场冷和场冷两种冷却方式下块材的最大悬浮力关系.实验结果显示零场冷时悬浮力大的块材在场冷时悬浮力不一定就大,反之亦然,两者并无直接的对应关系.在实际的场冷应用中,推荐以场冷下的悬浮力数据为参考.     

强钉扎高温超导体与永磁体系统的悬浮力数值模型

本文从数值模拟和实验两方面研究了熔融织构Y-Ba-Cu-O(YBCO)高温超导块材与永磁体组成的磁悬浮系统的悬浮特性.通过理论与实验结果的比较,在Hikihara-Moon超导磁悬浮动力学唯像模型的基础上,提出了强钉扎磁悬浮力模型,并进一步研究了熔融织构YBCO块材在不同条件下的悬浮特性,包括:场冷高度(FCH)和零场冷却(ZFC)的对磁浮力的影响,以及由不同运动速度导致的磁悬浮力的变化等.结果表明,强钉扎磁悬浮力模型适合于精确描述由熔融织构YBCO高温超导块材与永磁体所组成的磁悬浮系统的悬浮特性.     

NdFeB永磁体下YBaCuO块材在交流磁扰动中的悬浮力磁滞特性

研究了交流磁扰动对高温超导块材和永磁体之间悬浮力的影响。实验分析了在零场冷(ZFC)条件下,不同频率的交流磁场扰动下的悬浮力曲线;另外还研究了交流磁扰动在永磁体下降和上升过程中对悬浮力的影响,发现上升过程中悬浮力受交流磁场影响较大,而在下降过程中影响则较为不明显,同时随着交流磁场幅值的增大,悬浮力的滞回曲线逐渐加宽。说明交流磁场导致了超导块磁滞损耗的增加,对超导磁浮特性的研究具有理论意义。     

临界电流密度对场冷超导磁悬浮力的影响研究

基于Kim临界态模型,通过考虑超导块材内部屏蔽电流的穿透历史过程,讨论了场冷条件下临界电流密度对高温超导悬浮系统磁悬浮排斥力和吸引力的影响.结果显示:最大超导磁悬浮排斥力和吸引力均随临界电流密度的增加呈指数关系增加,并趋于饱和;场冷条件下的磁悬浮力回滞能量损耗远高于零场冷情况;存在一个磁悬浮力比率κ,κ值对于评价大电流...     

Temperature behavior of magnetization of DyCo2 compound

Zero field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) magnetization measurements were performed on the binary DyCo₂ cubic compound. Maxima for this compound were observed under ZFC magnetization. Below the broad maximum, irreversibility is observed. The magnetization curves for ZFC and FC regimes are split and magnetic moments for FC are higher than for ZFC. The dependence of the maxima upon the magnetic field and the time dependence of remanence is similar to the case of spin-glass-like systems.     

Influence of dipolar interaction on magnetic properties of ultrafine ferromagnetic particles

We use Monte Carlo simulations to study the influence of dipolar interaction and polydispersity on the magnetic properties of single-domain ultrafine ferromagnetic particles. From the zero field cooling (ZFC)/field cooling (FC) simulations we observe that the blocking temperature T(B) clearly increases with increasing strength of interaction, but it is almost not effected by a broadening of the distribution of particle sizes. While the dependence of the ZFC/FC curves on interaction and cooling rate are reminiscent of a spin glass transition at T(B), the relaxational behavior of the magnetic moments below T(B) is not in accordance with the picture of cooperative freezing.     

Equilibrium magnetic properties of dipolar interacting ferromagnetic nanoparticles

We use Monte Carlo simulations to study the influence of dipolar interaction on the equilibrium magnetic properties of monodisperse single-domain ferromagnetic nanoparticles. Low field magnetizations simulated in zero field cooling (ZFC)/field cooling (FC) procedures and field-dependent magnetization curves above the blocking temperatures show strong dependence on the concentration and the spatial arrangement (cubic or random) of the magnetic particles. The field-dependent magnetizations can not be simply described by the T^* model at relative low temperatures due to the interplay between anisotropy and dipolar interactions, as well as the spatial arrangement effect.     

Zero—field—cooled and field—cooled magnetizations and magnetic susceptibility of itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO3

Zero-field-cooled(ZFC) magnetization,field-cooled(FC) magnetization,ac magnetic susceptibility and major hysteresis loops of itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO3 have been measured at magnetic ordering temperatures ranging from 5 to 160K.An empirical model is proposed to calculate the measured ZFC magnetization.The result indicates that the calculated ZFC magnetization compares well with the measured one.Based on the generalized Preisach model.both the ZFC and FC curves are reproduced by numerical simulations.The critical temperature and critical exponents are determined by measuring the ac magnetic susceptibility in different bias magnetic fields at temperatures in the vicinity of the point of phase transition.     

内/外部励磁方式下高温超导环的俘获场特性

高温超导磁体在闭环运行时,可以提供稳定磁场,但是由于高温超导带材无法实现无阻焊接,成为高温超导磁体闭环运行的技术瓶颈.本文利用第二代高温超导带材制备闭环超导环,采用内部励磁和外部励磁对超导环进行励磁,在液氮温度中(77 K)测量超导环的中心俘获磁场.结果表明超导环在内部励磁俘获的磁场值比外部励磁俘获的磁场值高;外部励磁中,超导环中插入铁芯柱能提高俘获场;内部励磁中,超导环在螺线管闭环运行俘获的磁场值比开环运行俘获的磁场值高.结果对于高温超导闭环磁体励磁和高温超导带材磁通动力学研究具有很重要参考价值.     

垂向磁场变化量对高温超导块材悬浮力特性的影响

高温超导体因其无源自稳定的特性,受到许多学者的重视,具有广阔的应用前景.目前针对高温超导块材悬浮性能的研究主要集中于由永磁体产生的低磁场环境.本文基于超导磁体平台提供的强磁场环境,通过改变高温超导块材不同的场冷高度,实验研究了高温超导块材悬浮力与垂向磁场变化量的关系.研究结果表明随着垂向磁场变化量的增加,高温超导块材的悬浮力增长趋缓,并最终出现悬浮力饱和的现象.本文还对比了YBCO和GdBCO两种不同材料超导块材的悬浮性能,结果发现GdBCO的悬浮力在强磁场环境中表现出更大的潜力.这为高温超导磁浮在强磁场中的应用奠定了基础,通过更加合理地调节磁场的分布,可以更好地发挥高温超导块材的悬浮性能潜力.     

Mechanics of a magnet and a Meissner superconducting ring at arbitrary position and orientation

The force and torque exerted by a magnetic dipole on a superconducting ring (or hollow cylinder) in the Meissner state at arbitrary position and orientation are calculated using a Maxwell-London model previously proposed by the authors. The center of the ring is an unstable equilibrium point for the magnet. At this point the ring tends to align the magnet but tends to expel it for any small axial deviation from the center. There is also a non-monotonic and oscillatory dependence of the forces and torques on the position caused by the finiteness of the ring and a torque arises when the magnet is displaced both radially and axially from the center of the cylinder which corresponds to the experimental data. Therefore, the use of a magnet in a Meissner superconducting ring as a self aligning bearing requires a centered position and that the axial unstability to be compensated by additional mechanical means.     

Locally frozen magnetic field in HTSC ceramics

The value of a locally frozen magnetic field in a region with a diameter of 0.5 mm in a 0.5-mm-thick YBa₂Cu₃O_{7 ? x} plate was investigated as a function of the excitation field (to 2 × 10⁴ Am^?1), plate cooling mode (in the absence or presence of a field; i.e., zero-field cooling (ZFC) or field coupling (FC)), and local demagnetizing field. Analysis of the measurement results in the noted range of excitation fields showed the following: (i) the dependence on the excitation field for the ZFC mode is explained by the local inhomogeneity of critical currents of weak links in the ceramic Josephson medium and is limited by their maximum value at the temperature of the experiment (77 K); (ii) the dependence on the excitation field for the FC mode contains a portion of the magnetic phase transition from the frozen current structure, typical of the initial portion of the dependence, to the current structure characteristic of the ZFC freezing mode, and is limited by this transition; and (iii) the dependence on the demagnetizing field for the ZFC mode can be explained by the stable coexistence (without annihilation) of microscopic current loops with opposite current directions in the ceramics.     

Influence of experimental methods on crossing in magnetic force–gap hysteresis curve of HTS maglev system

The crossing in magnetic levitation force–gap hysteresis curve of melt high-temperature superconductor (HTS) vs. NdFeB permanent magnet (PM) was experimentally studied. One HTS bulk and PM was used in the experiments. Four experimental methods were employed combining of high/low speed of movement of PM with/without heat insulation materials (HIM) enclosed respectively. Experimental results show that crossing of the levitation force–gap curve is related to experimental methods. A crossing occurs in the magnetic force–gap curve while the PM moves approaching to and departing from the sample with high or low speed of movement without HIM enclosed. When the PM is enclosed with HIM during the measurement procedures, there is no crossing in the force–gap curve no matter high speed or low speed of movement of the PM. It was found experimentally that, with the increase of the moving speed of the PM, the maximum magnitude of levitation force of the HTS increases also. The results are interpreted based on Maxwell theories and flux flow-creep models of HTS.     

Direct observation of chiral susceptibility in the canonical spin glass AuFe

The extraordinary Hall resistivity rho(xy) and the magnetization M of a canonical spin glass AuFe (8 at.% Fe) were measured simultaneously as functions of temperature with the best care to the thermal and the magnetic field hysteresis. The data of rho(xy) show an anomaly at the spin glass transition temperature T(g) and have different zero field cooling (ZFC) and field cooling (FC) measurements below T(g). Moreover, the value of rho(xy)/M, which represents the chiral susceptibility of the system in the present case, also shows the difference between ZFC and FC measurements. The results are consistent with the predictions of the chirality scenario of canonical spin glasses by Kawamura.     

Magnetic force signal of vortex creation in type-II superconducting thin films

The possibility of the formation of a vortex in thin film due to the field of magnetic dipole moment when a point dipole is vertically approaching the surface of a thin film is discussed. Calculations are performed for certain discrete values of the critical position of the point dipole for creating the vortex in the thin film and the equilibrium positions of the vortex, both of which depend on the strength of magnetic dipole moment. The creation of a new single vortex in the thin film causes an abrupt change in the vertical force.     

Exchange bias in bulk layered hydroxylammonium fluorocobaltate (NH?OH)?CoF?

The magnetic properties of layered hydroxylammonium fluorocobaltate (NH(3)OH)(2)CoF(4) were investigated by measuring its dc magnetic susceptibility in zero-field-cooled (ZFC) and field-cooled (FC) regimes, its frequency dependent ac susceptibility, its isothermal magnetization curves after ZFC and FC regimes, and its heat capacity. Effects of pressure and magnetic field on magnetic phase transitions were studied by susceptibility and heat capacity measurements, respectively. The system undergoes a magnetic phase transition from a paramagnetic state to a canted antiferromagnetic state exhibiting a weak ferromagnetic behavior at T(C) = 46.5 K and an antiferromagnetic transition at T(N) = 2.9 K. The most spectacular manifestation of the complex magnetic behavior in this system is a shift of the isothermal magnetization hysteresis loop in a temperature range below 20 K after the FC regime-an exchange bias phenomenon. We investigated the exchange bias as a function of the magnetic field during cooling and as a function of temperature. The observed exchange bias was attributed to the large exchange anisotropy which exists due to the quasi-2D structure of the layered (NH(3)OH)(2)CoF(4) material.