Gallery of Abrikosov Lattices in Superconductors

First image of Vortex lattice, 1967 Bitter Decoration Pb-4at%In rod, 1.1K, 195G U. Essmann and H. Trauble Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart Physics Letters 24A, 526 (1967)

Vortex lattice in high-Tc superconductor, 1987 Bitter Decoration YBa2Cu3O7 crystal, 4.2K, 52G P. L. Gammel et al. Bell Labs Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 2592 (1987)

STM image of Vortex lattice, 1989 Scanning Tunnel Microscopy NbSe2, 1T, 1.8K H. F. Hess et al. Bell Labs Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 214 (1989)

Vortex chains in tilted field, 1991 Bitter Decoration Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O crystal, 35G tilted by 70 degrees C. A. Bolle et al. Bell Labs Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 112 (1991)

Imaging Vortex lattice with Lorentz Microscopy, 1992 Lorentz Microscopy Nb film K. Harada et al. Hitachi Lab Nature 360, 51 (1992)

Imaging Vortices with Magnetic Force Microscopy, 1995 Magnetic Force Microscopy YBa2Cu3O7 film, 1.7G, 1.3K A. Moser et al. University of Basel Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1847 (1995)

Gradient of Vortex density, 1995 Bitter Decoration NbSe2 crystal, 30G, 1.2K, area near the edge M. Marchevsky et al. University of Leiden Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2400 (1995)

Vortices trapped in holes in Nb film, 1996 Bitter Decoration Nb film with periodic array of holes, 6.4G, 4.2K A. Bezryadin et al. Grenoble Phys. Rev. B 53, 8553 (1996)

Scanning SQUID Microscopy of half-integer vortex, 1996 Scanning SQUID Microscopy YBaCuO grown on tricrystal substrate J. R. Kirtley et al. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1336 (1996)

Vortex lattice in film with artificial periodic pinning, 1996 Lorentz Microscopy Nb film with artificial periodic pinning, 60G, 4.5K K. Harada et al. Hitachi Lab Science 274, 1167 (1996)

Scanning Hall probe images of Vortices, 1997 Scanning Hall probes YBaCuO film, 1000G A. Oral et al. University of Bath Supercond. Sci. Technol. 10, 17 (1997)

Moving Bragg glass, 1998 Bitter Decoration NbSe2 crystal, 20G, velocity of vortices is 0.2 micron/sec F. Pardo et al. Bariloche, Argentina Nature 396, 348 (1998)

STM of driven vortex lattice, 1999 Scanning Tunnel Microscopy NbSe2, 1.9T, 4.3K A.M.Troyanovski et al. Leiden University Nature 399, 665 (1999)

Scanning Hall probe image of Vortex chain, 2001 Scanning Hall probes Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 crystal, 81K, tilted field: c-axis field 2G, in-plane field 27G A. Grigorenko et al. University of Bath Nature 414, 728 (2001)

Vortex configurations in periodic pinning array, 2000 Scanning Hall probes Nb film with holes on a square lattice, half matching field S. B. Field et al. Colorado State University Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 067003 (2002)

Low-Temperature Scanning Electron Microscopy, 2001 Low-Temperature Scanning Electron Microscopy YBaCuO film patterned as SQUID, 0.2G, 77K R. Straub et al. University of Tuebingen Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 3645 (2001)

Magneto-optical image of Vortex lattice, 2001 Magneto-Optical Imaging NbSe2 crystal, 4.3K, 3G P.E. Goa et al. University of Oslo Supercond. Sci. Technol. 14, 729 (2001)

Vortices in MgB2, 2002 Scanning Tunnel Spectroscopy MgB2 crystal, 2K, 2000G M. R. Eskildsen et al. University of Geneva Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 187003 (2002)

Magnetic-force microscopy of Vortex Lattice, 2002 Magnetic Force Microscopy Nb film, 40G, 4.3K A. Volodin et al. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Europhys. Lett. 58, 582 (2002)

Abrikosov lattice in MgB2, 2003 Bitter Decoration MgB2 crystal, 200G L. Ya. Vinnikov et al. Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernogolovka Phys. Rev. B 67, 092512 (2003)

Movies of Vortex Motion