M. Wacenovsky et al., A COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL-TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE IRREVERSIBILITY LINES AND CRITICAL-CURRENT DENSITIES IN MELT-PROCESSED YBCO, Physica. B, Condensed matter, 194, 1994, pp. 2139-2140
We report on a comparison of methods (SQUID, ac) commonly employed to
derive irreversibility lines (IL) and critical current densities of me
lt processed YBCO matarials. As expected from thermal activation theor
y, the results for J(c) as well as for the position of the IL in the H
-T-diagram are clearly dependent on the characteristic time scale of t
he measuring technique.