Possible role of grain-boundary and dislocation structure for the magnetic-flux trapping behavior of niobium: A first-principles study

Engineering & Materials Science

• Flux pinning 100%
• Niobium 68%
• Magnetic flux 60%
• Grain boundaries 54%
• Defects 37%
• Vacancies 29%
• Screw dislocations 17%
• Superconductivity 16%
• Density functional theory 16%
• Electronic structure 16%
• Lattice constants 16%
• Atoms 11%
• Electrons 10%
• Impurities 10%
• Magnetic fields 9%

Physics & Astronomy

• niobium 55%
• magnetic flux 50%
• trapping 41%
• grain boundaries 40%
• defects 30%
• flux pinning 13%
• screw dislocations 12%
• isolation 10%
• tendencies 9%
• lattice parameters 9%
• depletion 9%
• purity 9%
• superconductivity 9%
• plane waves 9%
• penetration 8%
• density functional theory 8%
• electronic structure 8%
• impurities 7%
• atoms 5%
• magnetic fields 5%
• electrons 4%

Chemical Compounds

• Magnetic Flux 89%
• Grain Boundary 56%
• Crystal Line Defect 18%
• Augmented Plane Wave Method 17%
• Screw Dislocation 17%
• Superconductivity 12%
• Lattice Parameter 10%
• Magnetic Field 10%
• Electronic State 7%
• Molecular Cluster 7%
• Density Functional Theory 6%
• Length 6%
• Electron Particle 5%