Mechanisms for enhanced supercurrent across meandered grain boundaries in high-temperature superconductors

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Feldmann, D M ^a   Holesinger, T G ^b   Feenstra, R ^c   Cantoni, C ^c   Zhang, W ^d   Rupich, M ^d   Li, X ^d   Durrell, J H ^e   Gurevich, A ^a   Larbalestier, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

MISORIENTATION ANGLES; PLANE MEANDERS; SUPERCURRENTS; VORTEX SEGMENTS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 35648943202     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2800255     Document Type: Article

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