Abstract
Ag-clad Tl0.75Bi0.25Sr1.6Ba0.4Ca 2Cu3Ox tapes were fabricated by a powder-in-tube technique. The starting powders consisted of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox plus simple oxides. The tapes were heated in flowing O2 at 835-865°C for 7.5-10 h. Room-temperature pressing at 1.0-1.5 GPa produced tapes with denser, more phase-pure cores, and transport critical current density Jc at 77 K in self-field that was increased by a factor of ≈2. The maximum Jc value of 6 × 103 A/cm2 was obtained with heating at 840-850°C for ≈ 10 h, with three intermediate pressing steps. The cores of the best tapes were still rather porous and contained significant concentrations of nonsuperconducting phases. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 291-297 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Applied Superconductivity |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 7-8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1996 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy