Microstructures and enhancement of critical current density in YBa 2Cu3O7 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition on various single crystal substrates modified by Ag nano-dots

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART III, 2005, Pages 3046-3049

  Li, A H ^a   Ionescu, M ^b   Liu, H K ^a   Silver, T ^a   Wang, X L ^a   Dou, S X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical current density; Laser deposition; Microstructures; Nano doping; Substrate; Superconducting films

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRITICAL CURRENTS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MAGNETIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY; LASER DEPOSITION; NANO-DOPING; SINGLE CRYSTAL SUBSTRATES;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 22144465812     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.848731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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