T. Tamegai et al., EFFECTS OF HYDROSTATIC-PRESSURE AND OXYGEN DOPING ON THE VORTEX PHASE-DIAGRAM IN BI2SR2CACU2O8+Y, Physica. C, Superconductivity, 282, 1997, pp. 2029-2030
We report on the effects of oxygen-doping and hydrostatic pressure on
the vortex lattice melting (VLM) and the peak effect (PE) in Bi2Sr2CaC
u2O8+y. Both oxygen doping and hydrostatic pressure shift these phase
boundaries towards higher fields. This change is understood by conside
ring the fact that these processes reduce the anisotropy of the system
. PE is found to show a non-monotonic temperature dependence in sample
s with small anisotropy.