Feasibility of manufacturing large domain YBCO Levitators™ by using melt processing techniques

Materials Science and Engineering B

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 62-65

  Sengupta, S ^a   Corpus, J ^a   Agarwal, M ^a   Gaines Jr , J R ^a  

^a Superconductive Components Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Levitators; Melt processing; Single domain; YBCO

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL GROWTH FROM MELT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LEVITATION MELTING; SINGLE CRYSTALS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

LARGE GRAIN MATERIALS; MIXED OXIDES;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0002153027     PISSN: 09215107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-5107(97)00302-4     Document Type: Article

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