PRESSURE EFFECTS ON HIGH-Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS CURRENT TRANSFER

Abstract

The efficiency of high pressure technique for the evidence of the Josephson nature of the intergranular contacts in metal ceramics has been demonstrated. With this technique it has been found that the abnormal hysteresis in fields of the order of tens kOe was not connected with the short-circuited contacts between the granules. The reason for the hysteresis lies in the ambiguity of the magnetization of the granules versus the change in the magnetic field direction. The critical current stability of the Josephson conteacts to high magnetic fields is due to both the inhomogeneity of the contacts and the existence of Abrikosov vortices within the superconducting electrode links.