Nonlinear magnetic diffusion in single-domain YBCO cylinders under pulsed field conditions

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART III, 2005, Pages 3758-3761

  Askew, Thomas R ^a,b   O'Daniel, Jennifer C ^a,c   Weber, Jonathan M ^a   Cha, Y S ^b  

^a KALAMAZOO COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic diffusion; Magnetic flux penetration; Magnetic shielding; Single domain YBCO cylinders

Indexed keywords

DEVICE DESIGN; MAGNETIC DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC FLUX PENETRATION; SINGLE-DOMAIN YBCO CYLINDERS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; LIMITERS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC SHIELDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

EID: 22044434576     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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