a Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, UK
b Departement de Physique de la Matière Condensée (DPMC), Université de Genève, Switzerland
Abstract:
Filament isolation is an extremely important factor in multi-filamentary conductors, and attempts have been made to achieve this by incorporating a resistive oxide sheath around individual filaments. However, filament-bridging intergrowths have been observed in conductors with and without the resistive sheath. We present magnetisation results on BSCCO-2223/Ag conductors with different filament configurations, and analyse the data taking into account the effects of magnetic coupling between filaments. All samples studied display some degree of filament bridging.