Mg-doped Nd-Ba-Cu-O generic seed crystals for the top-seeded melt growth of large-grain (rare earth)-Ba-Cu-O bulk superconductors

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1355-1362

  Shi, Y ^a   Babu, N Hari ^a   Iida, K ^a   Cardwell, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FABRICATION; GRAIN GROWTH; RARE EARTHS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; VOLUME FRACTION;

BULK MICROSTRUCTURE; GENERIC SEED CRYSTALS; SINGLE-GRAIN SUPERCONDUCTOR;

MAGNESIA;

EID: 33746156448     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2006.0167     Document Type: Article

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