Critical current of YBa2Cu3O7-δ low-angle grain boundaries

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Durrell, J H ^a   Hogg, M J ^a   Kahlmann, F ^a   Barber, Z H ^a   Blamire, M G ^a   Evetts, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE; THIN FILMS;

FLUX CUTTING MODEL; IN GRAIN PROPERTIES; LOW ANGLE GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MISORIENTATION ANGLE;

YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

EID: 0042812080     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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