Published March 18, 1997 | Version v1
Patent

Seed crystals with improved properties for melt processing superconductors for practical applications

Description

A method of fabricating bulk superconducting material is disclosed including RBa2Cu3O7-δ comprising heating compressed powder oxides and/or carbonates of R and Ba and Cu present in mole ratios to form RBa2Cu3O7-δ in physical contact with an oxide single crystal seed to a temperature sufficient to form a liquid phase in the RBa2Cu3O7-δ while maintaining the single crystal seed solid to grow the superconducting material and thereafter cooling to provide a material including RBa2Cu3O7-δ. R is a rare earth or Y or La and the single crystal seed has a lattice mismatch with RBa2Cu3O7-δ of less than about 2% at the growth temperature. The starting material may be such that the final product contains a minor amount of R2BaCuO5

Availability note (English)

Available from Patent and Trademark Office, Box 9, Washington, DC 20232 (United States).

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
[10 p.].
IPC:
Int. Cl. C30B 11/04.
IPC
Int. Cl. C30B 11/04.
Patent number
US patent document 5,611,854/A/

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
28044866
Subject category
S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
BARIUM OXIDES; COPPER OXIDES; HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS; LANTHANUM OXIDES; SYNTHESIS; YTTRIUM OXIDES
Descriptors DEC
ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CHALCOGENIDES; COPPER COMPOUNDS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTORS; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
US patent application 8-531,399.