Expedited Award for Novel Research: Preliminary Studies of Explosively Fabricated Ceramic/Metal Superconducting Sandwich Geometries
{'Code': '07030000', 'Directorate': {'LongName': 'Directorate For Engineering'}, 'Division': {'LongName': 'Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn'}}
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This project deals with a novel method of fabricating ceramic oxide-metal (silver) superconducting composite using explosive shock wave propagation technique. The advantage of this technique is that it does not involve significant heating (<100oC). Mixtures of silver powder and yttrium-barium-copper-oxygen powder of different fractions will be consolidated and encapsulated in silver into bars. These will be drawn/rolled to wires and subsequently heat treated. The processed components and precursors will be examined for Meissner effect (diamagnetic response) and transition temperature. Magnetization studies and superconducting current transport studies will be made in collaboration with the Los Alamos National Laboratories.
{'FirstName': 'Lawrence', 'LastName': 'Murr', 'EmailAddress': 'fekberg@utep.edu', 'StartDate': '04/01/1988', 'EndDate': None, 'RoleCode': 'Principal Investigator'}
{'Name': 'Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology', 'CityName': 'Beaverton', 'ZipCode': '970068921', 'PhoneNumber': '5036451121', 'StreetAddress': '20000 NW Walker Road', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'StateName': 'Oregon', 'StateCode': 'OR'}
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