From meandering to straight grain boundaries: Improving the structures of artificially induced grain boundaries in superconducting YBa2Cu3Oy bicrystals

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3029-3035

  Zhang, Xiao Feng ^a,b   Todt, Volk R ^a   Miller, Dean J ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH FROM MELT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

ARTIFICIALLY INDUCED GRAIN BOUNDARIES; BICRYSTALS; DUAL SEEDED MELT TEXTURE PROCESS; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDE;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 0031269916     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.1997.0396     Document Type: Article

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