A scaling law for the critical current density of weakly- and strongly-coupled superconductors, used to parameterize data from a technological Nb3Sn strand

Superconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1097-1108

  Keys, Simon A ^a   Hampshire, Damian P ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRITICAL CURRENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

SUPERCONDUCTING STRANDS;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 0141496479     PISSN: 09532048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/16/9/323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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