Essential factors for the critical current density in superconducting MgB2: Connectivity and flux pinning by grain boundaries

Superconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Matsushita, Teruo ^a   Kiuchi, Masaru ^a   Yamamoto, Akiyasu ^b   Shimoyama, Jun Ichi ^b   Kishio, Kohji ^b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; FLUX PINNING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRICAL CONNECTIVITY; FLUX PINNING PROPERTY;

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY);

EID: 37549009916     PISSN: 09532048     EISSN: 13616668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/21/01/015008     Document Type: Article

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