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Advances in processing of superconductors has demonstrated that ceramic powders with exact composition, super-homogeneity, and extremely fine particle size can be prepared by chemical processing to achieve high density and uniform microstructure. The chemical processing routes have great advantage in preparing powder with high reactivity thus promoting solid state reactions required to produce ‘purer’ superconducting phase. We have studied extensively the coprecipitation technique for the preparation of superconducting ceramic powders. Chemical solution methods have been used in order to model several superconducting systems and to predict optimum conditions for obtaining exact composition. Several improvements on the control of precipitation reaction have been implemented in order to obtain powders of few nanometers in size. This has been done by carrying out the reaction in the bulk of a solution or in microemlusion systems. The corecipitated precursor powder has been used for production of 20− 30 meter long Ag-clad tapes. These tapes require considerably reduced processing times. By controlled heat treatment conditions, these tapes have been processed to carry transport critical current density, Jc <4 × 104 A/cm2 at 77K in zero applied field.
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Muhammed, M., Wang, L.N. & Rao, K.V. The use of nanophase powders for high Jc superconductor tape production. J. Electron. Mater. 24, 1991–1995 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02653022
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