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

Patent ·
OSTI ID:868119
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  1. 522 N. 32nd St., Omaha, NE 68131

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.

Research Organization:
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA; Iowa State University, Ames, IA (US)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-82
Assignee:
Holloway, Aleksey (522 N. 32nd St., Omaha, NE 68131)
Patent Number(s):
US 5079225
Application Number:
07/492,746
OSTI ID:
868119
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Anisotropy of the superconducting magnetic field Hc2 of a single crystal of TmBa2Cu3O7−δ journal September 1987
Aligned Sintered Compacts of RBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−x (R=Dy, Er, Eu, Gd, Ho, Y) journal January 1987