Near-isotropic performance of intrinsically anisotropic high-temperature superconducting tapes due to self-assembled nanostructures

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Zuev, Y L ^a   Christen, D K ^a   Wee, S H ^a,b   Goyal, A ^a   Cook, S W ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POINT DEFECTS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ASSEMBLED NANOSTRUCTURES; C -AXIS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITIES; CURRENT CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRONIC RESPONSES; FIELD DEPENDENCES; FIELD INTENSITIES; FIELD ORIENTATIONS; FINE TUNES; HIGH TEMPERATURES; MATERIAL PROPERTIES; NANOSCALE STRUCTURES; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPERATING TEMPERATURES; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SIMPLE MODELS;

SUPERCONDUCTING TAPES;

EID: 55149107920     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3009286     Document Type: Article

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