Progress in High-Temperature Superconductors

Influence of Undercooling and Nd₄Ba₂Cu₂O₁₀ Content on the Growth Rate of Large-Grain Bulk Nd-Ba-Cu-O Superconductor (N.H. Babu, W. Lo, D.A. Cardwell).

Reactive Sintering and Retrograde Densification of Bulk Bismuth-Based Superconductors (R.L. Thayer, S.R. Schmidt, S.E. Dorris, J.W. Bullard, M.T. Lanagan).

Phase Diagram Studies in the System T₁₂O₃-BaO-CaO-CuO-Ag (P.J. Majewski, A. Jalowicki, S. Kaesche, F. Aldinger).

Superplastic Deformation in Fine-Grained YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x (J. Yun, Y.T. Chou, M.P. Harmer).

Reel-to-Reel Continuous Chemical Solution Deposition of Epitaxial Gd₂O₃ Buffer Layers on Biaxially Textured Metal Tapes for the Fabrication of YBa₂Cu₃O₇-Delta Coated Conductors (T. Aytug, M.P. Paranthaman, B.W. Kang, D.B. Beach, S. Sathyamurthy, E.D. Specht, D.F. Lee, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, D.M. Kroeger, K.J. Leonard, P.M. Martin, D.K. Christen).

Preparation of Dense MgB₂ Bulk Superconductors by Spark Plasma Sintering (S.-Y. Lee, S.-I. Yoo, Y.-W. Kim, N.M. Hwang, D.-Y. Kim).

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

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

Scaling-up High-Tc Tapes by MOCVD, Spray Pyrolysis, and MOD Processes (S. Beauquis, S. Donet, F. Weiss).

Towards an all Chemical Solution Coated Conductor (O. Castano, A. Cavallaro, A. Palau, J.C. Gonzalez, M. Rossell, T. Puig, F. Sandiumenge, N. Mesters, S. Pinol, X. Obradors).

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

Latest Developments in Using Combustion Chemical Vapor Deposition to Fabricate Coated Conductors (A.C. King, S.S. Shoup, M.K. White, S.L. Krebs, D.S. Mattox, T.A. Polley, N. Darnell).

Growth of YBCO Thick Films on Nd₂CuO₄ Buffered Substrates (X. Qi, Z. Lockman, M. Soorie, Y. Bugoslavsky, D. Caplin, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll).

Microstructural Characterization of High Jc, YBCO Thick Films Grown at very High Rates and High Temperatures (PLD by A. Berenov, N. Malde, Y. Bugoslavsky, L.F. Cohen, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, S.J. Foltyn).

YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Films Through a Flourine Free TMAP MOD Approach (Y. Xu, D. Shi, A. Goyal, M. Paranthaman, N.A. Rutter, P. Martin, D. Kroeger).

Effect of Transverse Compressive Stress on Transport Critical Current Density of Y-Ba-Cu-O Coated Ni and Ni-W RABiTS Tapes (N. Cheggour, J.W. Ekin, C.C. Clickner, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, M. Paranthaman, N. Rutter).

Phase and Microstructure Change of High Critical Current Density TFA-MOD YBCO Coated Conductor (Y. Yamada, T. Araki, H. Kurosaki, T. Yuasa, Y. Shiohara, I. Hirabayshi, J. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, Y. Iijima, T. Saito, T. Katoh, T. Hirayama).

Growth Kinetics and Texture of SOE NiO/Ni and Ni-Based Alloys RABiTS (Z. Lockman, X. Qi, W. Goldacker, R. Nast, B. de Boer, A. Kursumovic, R. Tomov, R. Huhne, J.E. Evetts, B.A. Glowacki, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll).

YBCO/YSZ/Hastelloy Superconducting Tapes by IBAD Magnetron Deposition (S. Gnanarajan and N. Savvides).

Growth Kinetics and Texture of (Nd,Ce)₂CuO₄/NiO Buffers on Ni-Based RABiTS (Z. Lockman, X. Qi, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, W. Goldacker, R. Nast, B. deBoer, A. Kursumovic, R. Tomov, R. Huhne, J.E. Evetts, B.A. Glowacki, R. Major).

Ca-Doping of YBCO Thin Films (A. Berenov, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, D. MacPhail, S. Foltyn).

Demonstration of High Current Density YBCO Films on all Solution Buffers (M.P. Paranthaman, S. Sathyamurthy, H.Y. Zhai, H.M. Christen, S. Kang, A. Goyal).

Solution Buffer Layers for YBCO Coated Conductors (S. Sathyamurthy, M. Paranthaman, H.-Y. Zhai, S. Kang, C. Cantoni, S. Cook, L. Heatherly, A. Goyal, H.M. Christen, Md.S. Bhuiyan, K. Salama).

Scale Up of High Performance High Temperature Superconductors (V. Selvamanickam, Y. Li, H.G. Lee, X. Xiong, Y. Qiao, J. Reeves, Y. Xie, A. Knoll, K. Lenseth).

Inclined-Substrate Pulsed Laser Deposition of Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Template Film for YBCO Coated Conductors (B. Ma, M. Li, B.L. Fisher, R.E. Koritala, R.M. Baurceanu, S.E. Dorris, U. Balachandran).

Development of Conductive La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ Buffer Layers for Cu-Based RABiTS (T. Aytug, M.P. Paranthaman, A. Goyal, A. Gapud, N. Rutter, H.Y. Zhai, D.K. Christen).

Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy of Thick YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Films on RABiTS (K.J. Leonard, S. Kang, B. Kang, A. Goyal, D.M. Kroeger).

Thickness Dependence of J_cS in YBCO, TL-2212 and HG-1212 Thick Films (J.Z. Wu, R. Emergo, X. Wang).

Damaged Effect in HTS Irradiated by U Fission Fragments (A. Gandini, R. Weinstein).

Effect of Y₂BaCuO₅ Morphology and Size in Semisolid Melt on Growth Rate of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x Single Crystal (O. Jongprateep, F. Dogan).

Flux Pinning and Properties of Solid-Solution (Y,Nd)_1+xBa_2-xCu₃O_7-δ Superconductors Processed in Air and Partial Oxygen Atmospheres (T.J. Haugan, J.M. Evans, J.C. Tolliver, I. Maartense, P.N. Barnes, W. Wong-Ng, L.P. Cook, R.D. Shull).

Phase Relations in the BaO-R₂O₃-CuO_x Systems (W. Wong-Ng, L.P. Cook, J. Suh).