Recent advances in the processing of bulk, single grain (RE)BCO high temperature superconductors (HTS) fabricated by top seeded melt growth (TSMG) are described, including the refinement of (RE) 2 BaCuO 5 (RE-211) second phase inclusions in the bulk superconducting (RE)Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7Àd (RE-123) matri
Fabrication and superconducting properties of Gd–Ba–Cu–O single-grain bulk with barium cerate addition
✍ Scribed by S. Nariki; N. Sakai; M. Murakami; I. Hirabayashi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 445-448
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-4534
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✦ Synopsis
We investigated processing, microstructure and superconducting properties of Gd123 single grain bulk superconductors with a large amount of BaCeO 3 . The melt-textured bulk samples with compositions of Gd123 : BaCeO 3 : Gd211 = 100 : 40Àx : x (x = 0-40) plus 20 wt.% of Ag 2 O and 0.5 wt.% of Pt were fabricated in Ar-1%O 2 gas. The single grain bulk samples 25 and 33 mm in diameters were obtained with the composition of x = 5-40. It was observed that BaCeO 3 particles of 1-2 lm in diameters and Gd211 particles of 0.5-1 lm in diameters were dispersed in the melt-textured samples. Magnetic trapped fields of the 25 mm-sized samples with x = 10-40 were around 1 T at 77 K and the 33 mm-sized sample with x = 20 was 1.4 T at 77 K.
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