Hot-seeding melt growth of large (Sm-Eu) 123 single domains in air with controlled chemical substitutions

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 III, 2003, Pages 3079-3082

  Hu, A ^a   Sakai, N ^a   Murakami, M ^a  

^a SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical substitution; Cooling rate; Hot seeding; Melt process

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COOLING; NEODYMIUM; STOICHIOMETRY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

HOT-SEEDING MELT GROWTH;

SAMARIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0042967683     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.812108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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