Process and apparatus for preparing textured crystalline materials using anisotropy in the paramagnetic susceptibility

Patent · Mon Jan 06 23:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:7284357

Holloway, A

The present invention discloses a process and apparatus for forming textures in materials. The process comprises heating a material having an anisotropy in the paramagnetic or diamagnetic susceptibility within a magnetic field. The material is heated to a temperature approaching its melting point while a magnetic field of at least 10[sup 4]Oe is simultaneously applied. The process and apparatus produce highly textured bulk and elongated materials with high current densities below critical superconducting temperatures. 6 figs.

• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-82
• Assignee: PTO; EDB-94-081552
• Patent Number(s): US 5079225; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-492746
• OSTI ID: 7284357
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CURRENT DENSITY
FABRICATION
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY
MATERIALS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
SUPERCONDUCTORS
TEXTURE
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
TRANSITION TEMPERATURE