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Degradation of YBC critical current as a result of annealing in air

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Judith Bransky
Affiliation:
Oranim, Department of Physics, University of Haifa, Tivon, 36910, Israel
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Abstract

The present study was aimed at determining the rate of degradation of the transport critical current density Jc of ceramic YBCO stored in atmosphere, as a function of temperature. The transport critical current of ring-shaped samples was measured by the inductance technique. The samples were prepared by the standard method. The results show that annealing at 100 °C for over 500 h caused practically no degradation of Jc. Above 100 °C the rate of degradation increases rapidly with temperature.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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