Synchrotron tomography for the study of void formation in internal tin Nb3Sn superconductors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-39

  Haibel, Astrid ^a   Scheuerlein, Christian ^b  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Superconducting materials; Tomography

Indexed keywords

HEAT TREATMENT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TIN; TOMOGRAPHY;

QUANTITATIVE VOID DESCRIPTION; SYNCHROTRON ABSORPTION TOMOGRAPHY; VOID FORMATION; VOID VOLUME;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 33947252954     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2006.887546     Document Type: Article

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