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Conversion of 124 into 123 + CuO: microstructure and phase diagram

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Donald E. Morris ,
Janice H. Nickel ,
Andrea G. Markelz ,
Ronald Gronsky ,
Mark Fendorf  and
Christopher P. Burmester
Donald E. Morris
Affiliation:
2‐300 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
Janice H. Nickel
Affiliation:
2‐300 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
Andrea G. Markelz
Affiliation:
2‐300 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
Ronald Gronsky
Affiliation:
2‐300 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
Mark Fendorf
Affiliation:
2‐300 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
Christopher P. Burmester
Affiliation:
2‐300 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Abstract

Conversion of 124 into 123 + CuO is interesting because it can produce non‐superconducting CuO islands and highly strained local regions, both of which may act as flux pinning centers. Microstructural studies (TEM) show localized regions with high strain fields resulting from the lattice mismatch between 124 and 123 along the c axis. Enhanced Tc (95 K) was found in partly converted samples. The partial pressure of oxygen necessary for conversion from YBa2Cu4O8 (124) to YBa2Cu307 (123) decreases with decreasing temperatures, and below 850°C the boundary between 123 and 124 phase regions is found to fall approximately as log ρ(θ2) = 19.3 ‐22000/T. The phase diagram of the Y‐Ba‐Cu‐O system is given as a function of temperature and partial pressure of oxygen over the range between 500°C and 1000°C and 10‐6< P[O2] < 102 bar.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 169: Symposium M – High Temperature Superconductors: Fundamental Properties and Novel Materials Processing , 1989 , 245
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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