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Electromagnetic and microstructural investigations of a naturally grown 8° [001] tilt bicrystal of Bi2Sr2CaCu208 + x

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Abstract

Electromagnetic characterization and high resolution transmission electron microscopy have been conducted on the same 8° [001] symmetrical (010) tilt boundary in a naturally grown, bulk-scale bicrystal of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 + x (BSCCO-2212). The resistive transition showed excess resistance above and below Tc, suggesting some weak coupling at the boundary, but the inter- and intragranular voltage-current characteristics, irreversibility fields, and critical current density (Jc) values were very similar and characteristic of strongly coupled grains and grain boundary. The misorientation was accommodated by a set of partial dislocations with the Frank spacing of 1.9 nm. The dislocation cores appeared to be separated by relatively undistorted regions of crystal. The Jc, values at 25 K exceeded 103 A/cm2 in fields of several tesla, more than two orders of magnitude larger than that found earlier in [001] twist boundaries of BSCCO-2212. This result is consistent with the view that low angle [001] till boundaries play an important role for current transport in polycrystalline BSCCO tapes.

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  1. Applied Superconductivity Center, Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA

    Jyh-Lih Wang, I-Fei Tsu & R. J. Kelley

  2. Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA

    X. Y. Cai

  3. Ceramics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899, USA

    M. D. Vaudin

  4. Applied Superconductivity Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Materials Science Program University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA

    S. E. Babcock

  5. Applied Superconductivity Center, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Science Program and Department of Physics University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA

    D. C. Larbalestier

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Wang, JL., Tsu, IF., Cai, X.Y. et al. Electromagnetic and microstructural investigations of a naturally grown 8° [001] tilt bicrystal of Bi2Sr2CaCu208 + x. Journal of Materials Research 11, 868–877 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1996.0108

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