Development of non-weak link bulk YBCO grain boundaries for high magnetic field eegimeering applications

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 2, 1999, Pages 2042-2045

  Lo, Wai ^a   Cardwell, D A ^a   Bradley, A D ^a   Doyle, R A ^a   Shi, Y H ^a   Lloyd, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRYSTAL GROWTH; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; OXYGEN; SOLIDIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

IRREVERSIBILITY; LIQUID PHASE; NONWEAK LINK JOINING TECHNIQUE; PSEUDO CRYSTALS; SEEDED PERITECTIC SOLIDIFICATION;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 0032644458     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.784866     Document Type: Article

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