F. Canepa et al., MAGNETIC STUDY OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING PHASE YNI2B2C, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. D, Condensed matter,atomic, molecular and chemical physics, biophysics, 16(10-11), 1994, pp. 1857-1862
We report the synthesis procedure and the chemical-physical characteri
zation of the YNi2B2C superconductor. From magnetic measurements we sh
ow that this material is a type-II superconductor. We evaluate the pen
etration depth, the coherence length and, thus, the Ginzburg-Landau pa
rameter. Despite the low value of kappa(12), a very large region of re
versibility in the H-T plane is observed.