Artificial flux pinning centers in large, single-grain (RE)-Ba-Cu-O superconductors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 4806-4808

  Hari Babu, N ^a   Reddy, E S ^a   Cardwell, D A ^a   Campbell, A M ^a   Tarrant, C D ^b   Schneider, K R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b URENCO UK Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MELTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PARAMAGNETISM; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLIDIFICATION; SQUIDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL PINNING CENTERS; SOLID-STATE REACTIONS;

YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

EID: 0346280198     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1631738     Document Type: Article

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