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Fabrication and characterization of large Nd–Ba–Cu–O grains prepared under low oxygen pressure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

W. Lo ,
N. Hari Babu ,
D. A. Cardwell ,
Y. Shi  and
D. M. Astill
W. Lo
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
N. Hari Babu
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
D. A. Cardwell
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
Y. Shi
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
D. M. Astill
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Superconductivity, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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A large, single-grain Nd–Ba–Cu–O (NdBCO) composite consisting of superconducting NdBa2Cu3O7-δ containing nonsuperconducting Nd4Ba2Cu2O10 phase inclusions was fabricated up to 2 cm in diameter using a top-seeded melt-textured growth technique. A MgO single-crystal seed was used to provide a heterogeneous nucleation site at the center of a presintered pellet heated above its peritectic temperature and cooled continuously in a conventional tube furnace in reduced oxygen partial pressure. This process produces individual grains with the c axis oriented at ≈10° to the seed surface which, from vibrating-sample magnetization measurements, exhibit a pronounced peak effect in their magnetic moment over a wide temperature range (50–90 K) when the supercurrent flows in the a-b planes. A very high irreversibility field (>9 T at 77 K) is also observed in these grains for field applied both perpendicular and parallel to the crystallographic c axis which is significantly greater than that observed in good-quality melt-processed Y–Ba–Cu–O. These results underline the potential of NdBCO for high-field engineering applications.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 33 - 39
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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