Characterization of superconducting bearings for lunar telescopes

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 911-915

  Lee, Eunjeong ^a,b   Ma, Ki Bui ^a   Wilson, Thomas L ^b   Chu, Wei Kan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC BEARINGS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC LEVITATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; TELESCOPES;

FLUX PINNING EFFECTS; LUNAR TELESCOPE;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

EID: 0032659594     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.783445     Document Type: Article

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