Intragranular and intergranular superconducting properties of bulk melt-textured YBCO

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 2 PART 2, 1999, Pages 2308-2311

  Vanderbemden, Ph ^a   Cloots, R ^a   Ausloos, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL GROWTH FROM MELT; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

INTERGRANULAR SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES; INTRAGRANULAR SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0032691749     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.784932     Document Type: Article

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