Superconducting nanostructured magnesium diboride

peer reviewedLike conventional superconductors, MgB2 is a phonon-mediated superconductor with a relatively long coherence length. Its properties make the prospects for fabricating reproducible uniform Josephson junctions, the fundamental element of superconducting circuits, much more favorable for MgB2 than for high-temperature superconductors. Here, we report bulk superconductivity in nanophase MgB2, using a two-step technique of mechanically activated sjavascript:$('next-but').click();elf-propagated high-temperature synthesis(MASHS). The conditions of synthesis and some properties of the product (structure, susceptibility, resistivity) were studied. It was shown that a single-phase product was obtained after 2 hours of intense mechanical treatment of reagents (Mg and B powders), and MASHS induced at 30 A cm(-2)