Enhanced flux pinning of air-processed Gd Ba2 Cu3 O7-δ superconductors with addition of Zr O2 nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Hu, Anming ^a   Xu, Caixuan ^b   Izumi, Mitsuru ^b   Hirabayashi, Izumi ^c   Ichihara, Masaki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CURRENT DENSITY; GADOLINIUM ALLOYS; MAGNETIC FLUX; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

FLUX PINNING; SELF FIELDS; SUBMICROMETERS; SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 33750896511     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2387863     Document Type: Article

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