High intergrain critical current density in fine-grain (Ba 0.6K0.4)Fe2As2 wires and bulks

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 682-685

  Weiss, J D ^a   Tarantini, C ^a   Jiang, J ^a   Kametani, F ^a   Polyanskii, A A ^a   Larbalestier, D C ^a   Hellstrom, E E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; CRITICAL CURRENTS; CURRENT DENSITY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IRON COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; WIRE;

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITIES J; GRAIN BOUNDARY DENSITIES; GRAIN CONNECTIVITY; INTER-GRAIN CRITICAL CURRENTS; SUPERCONDUCTING COMPOUNDS; TEXTURED SUBSTRATES; TRANSPORT CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY; UPPER CRITICAL FIELDS;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84864352901     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3333     Document Type: Article

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