Flux pinning in ternary (Nd0.33Eu0.33Gd0.33)Ba2Cu 3Oy melt-processed superconductors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 2351-2353

  Koblischka, M R ^a   Muralidhar, M ^a   Murakami, M ^a  

^a SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRYSTAL DEFECTS; HEAT FLUX; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIZATION; MELTING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TEMPERATURE; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

FLUX PINNING; MELT PROCESSED SUPERCONDUCTORS; NEODYMIUM EUROPIUM GADOLINIUM BARIUM CUPRATES; PINNING FORCES;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0032547627     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122458     Document Type: Article

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