MICROSTRUCTURE AND CRITICAL CURRENT-DENSITY OF ZONE MELT TEXTURED YBA2CU3O6+X/Y2BACUO5 WITH BASNO3 ADDITIONS

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作者
MCGINN, P
CHEN, W
ZHU, N
TAN, L
VARANASI, C
SENGUPTA, S
机构
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
关键词
BULK YBA2CU3OX SUPERCONDUCTOR; CU-O SUPERCONDUCTOR; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; GROWTH; WIRES; JC;
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10.1063/1.105548
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
Additions of BaSnO3 have been made to YBa2CU3O6 + x/Y2BaCuO5 composite wires to examine its potential for improving solidification processing and enhancing pinning. Zone melting has been used to produce texture in extruded YBa2CU3O6 + x (Y-123) wires with Y2BaCuO5(211) and BaSnO3 additions. BaSnO3 additions markedly improve the magnetization properties over similarly textured Y-123 or Y-123 + 211 wires in low fields, but do not show a noticeable improvement at higher fields ( > 2 T). Microstructural effects of BaSnO3 include the growth of much larger Y-123 grains, and a substantial reduction in size of 211 precipitates. Magnetic critical current densities (J(c)) in excess of 1.2 X 1O(5) A/cm2 in zero field, and 3.0 X 10(4) A/cm2 at 1 T are observed.
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