Processing of High Temperature Superconductors [Hardcover]

Included in this volume are papers on biaxial and triaxial crystallographic texturing, epitaxial growth on biaxially textured substrates, melt-processing of YBCO, and basic information about HTS materials concerning phase diagrams, measurement of physical properties, characterization, and effects of various defects including grain boundaries on supercurrent transmission.

Proceedings of the symposium held at the 104th Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, April 28-May1, 2002 in Missouri; Ceramic Transactions, Volume 140.

Second Generation Wires.

Surface-Oxidation Epitaxy Method for Critical Current Control of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Coated Conductors (K. Matsumoto, I. Hirabayshi, and K. Osamura)

Control of the Sulfur C (2 x 2) Superstructure on {100}<100> Textured Metals for RABiTS Applications (C. Cantoni, D. K. Christen, L. Heatherly, F. A. List, A. Goyal, G. W. Ownby, and D. M. Zehner).

Inclined Substrate Deposition of Magnesium Oxide for YBCO-Coated Conductors (B. Ma, M. Li, B. L. Fisher, R. E. Koritala, S. E. Dorris, V. A. Maroni, and U. Balachandran)

Ion-beam-Assisted Deposition of Magnesium Oxide Films for Coated Conductors (T. P. Weber, B. Ma, U. Balachandran, and M. McNallan)

Scaling-up High-Tc Tapes by MOCVD, Spray Pyrolysis, and MOD Processes (S. Beauquis, S. Donet, and F. Weiss).
Towards an all Chemical Solution Coated Conductor (O. Castaño, A. Cavallaro, A. Palau, J. C. González, M. Rossell, T. Puig, F. Sandiumenge, N. Mesters, S. Piñol, and X. Obradors)

An Economical Route for Production of High-Quality YSZ Buffer Layers using the ECONOTM Process (M. A. Zurbuchen, S. Sambasivan, S. Barnett, B. F. Kang, A. Goyal, P. A. Barnes, and C. E. Oberly).
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