Processing of erbium doped high-T/sub c/ superconductor YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7-x/ single crystals for improved flux pinning
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Hicks, W.C.; Dogan, F.; Strasik, M.; Day, A.C.; McCrary, K.E.
- Source
- IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on. 11(1):3724-3727 Mar, 2001
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Erbium
Crystals
Neodymium
Furnaces
Superconducting transition temperature
Magnetic materials
Flux pinning
Superconducting magnets
Magnetic fields
Telephony
- Language
- ISSN
- 1051-8223
1558-2515
2378-7074
The effect of selected rare earth (RE) oxide addition on growth behavior of large single crystals and the superconducting properties of YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 7-x/ (Y123) was investigated. The results show that even a small amount (