Cracking of rare earth barium cuprate films prepared by liquid phase epitaxy

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1510-1513

  Aichele, Tilo ^a   Görnert, Peter ^a   Uecker, Reinhard ^b   Mühlberg, Manfred ^c  

^a BIOMATERIALS DEPARTMENT   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR CRYSTAL GROWTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FILM GROWTH; FILM PREPARATION; LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SUBSTRATES; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

RARE EARTH BARIUM CUPRATE FILMS; THERMODYNAMIC MODELS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 0032659547     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.784680     Document Type: Article

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