Enhanced supercurrent density in polycrystalline YBa2Cu3O(7-δ) at 77 K from calcium doping of grain boundaries

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6801, 2000, Pages 162-164

  Hammerl, G ^a   Schmehl, A ^a   Schulz, R R ^a   Goetz, B ^a   Blelefeldt, H ^a   Schnelder, C W ^a   Hllgenkamp, H ^a,b   Mannhart, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0034648778     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35025014     Document Type: Article

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