La. Dorosinskii et al., MAGNETOOPTIC OBSERVATION OF LOCK-IN TRANSITION FOR PINNING OF VORTICES ON TWIN BOUNDARIES IN TILTED FIELD, Physica. C, Superconductivity, 246(3-4), 1995, pp. 283-287
Sharp uncoupling of vortices from twin boundaries (TB's) at increasing
inclination of the external field with respect to the TB plane is fou
nd by direct magnetooptic observations. Temperature dependence of the
twin boundary pinning energy is determined from measurements of the cr
itical angle of the field at which the above lock-in transition takes
place.