Table 2 Main properties of the 26 samples of the Response-Surface-Methodology Design of Experiment: critical temperature TC, superconducting transition width ΔTC, irreversibility field Hirr at 10 K, upper critical field HC2 at 10 K, lattice parameters a and c. The estimated standard deviation for a and c is \(\lesssim\) 0.0001 Å for all samples.

From: High-field superconductivity in C-doped MgB2 bulk samples prepared by a rapid synthesis route

Sample ID

Tc (K)

ΔTc (K)

μ0Hirr @10 K (T)

μ0HC2 @10 K (T)

a (Å)

c (Å)

RSM_1

33.9

3.4

18.0

23.6

3.0610

3.5267

RSM_2

35.8

1.8

17.3

20.2

3.0753

3.5257

RSM_3

33.4

3.2

13.9

21.4

3.0611

3.5264

RSM_4

32.9

3.7

16.0

22.8

3.0558

3.5217

RSM_5

36.2

1.2

17.8

22.8

3.0694

3.5203

RSM_6

29.0

2.0

13.7

20.5

3.0563

3.5261

RSM_7

33.7

6.6

17.3

23.1

3.0628

3.5255

RSM_8

28.8

4.3

13.4

20.9

3.0562

3.5270

RSM_9

36.2

2.3

18.0

21.9

3.0686

3.5263

RSM_10

34.4

2.1

15.2

22.9

3.0627

3.5256

RSM_11

34.1

3.8

16.7

24.4

3.0655

3.5245

RSM_12

30.3

2.7

17.2

23.8

3.0592

3.5244

RSM_13

29.2

8.3

14.0

21.1

3.0505

3.5244

RSM_14

30.4

4.1

14.2

20.3

3.0563

3.5255

RSM_15

32.2

2.3

18.8

23.9

3.0594

3.5235

RSM_16

36.3

0.6

18.6

22.5

3.0657

3.5256

RSM_17

35.0

2.5

18.1

24.0

3.0628

3.5268

RSM_18

31.8

4.4

16.8

23.7

3.0597

3.5263

RSM_19

32.8

3.0

15.9

23.7

3.0525

3.5191

RSM_20

27.4

1.9

11.9

17.3

3.0483

3.5190

RSM_21

26.8

4.1

7.8

17.1

3.0497

3.5255

RSM_22

34.7

3.3

16.1

23.7

3.0601

3.5249

RSM_23

29.9

2.9

14.2

19.6

3.0509

3.5184

RSM_24

36.2

2.3

15.9

23.5

3.0609

3.5195

RSM_25

34.1

3.5

16.2

24.5

3.0604

3.5255

RSM_26

35.7

2.8

16.5

22.2

3.0573

3.5201