Flux Pinning and Magnetic Anisotropy in Neutron Irradiated Hg-Ba-Ca-Cu-O

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 1870-1875

  Sun, Yang Ren ^a   Amm, Kathleen M ^a   Schwartz, Justin ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FIELD ORIENTATION; FLUX PINNING; MERCURY BARIUM CALCIUM COPPER OXIDE; SURFACE BARRIER;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0029324543     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: 15582515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.402946     Document Type: Article

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