Elsevier, Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications, 3(280), p. 158-166
DOI: 10.1016/s0921-4534(97)00183-4
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The magnetizations of thin film disk-shaped type-II superconductors in perpendicular magnetic fields are considered by aid of Mikheenko's critical state model which has been corrected by Zhu for the case of a time-varying periodic field. This paper presents the application of this scheme to an arbitrary nonperiodic time dependence H(t). We calculate the influence of field inhomogeneities in a magnetometer on the current density distribution of a disk-shaped type-II superconductor. The resulting SQUID pickup signals and magnetic moments are compared to measurements performed on a 200 nm thick YBa2Cu3O7 film in the irreversible regime of the phase diagram. Theory and experiment show good agreement, even for heavily distorted SQUID signals.