Ceramic Superconductors Produced By Advanced Ceramics       Processing (Materials Research)
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This project will investigate advanced ceramic processing methods               through use of colloidal techniques to produce ceramic                          superconductors.  The processing methods used in this project will              allow the microstructures to be precisely controlled; thereby,                  revealing the relationship between microstructure, properties, and              processing for the new class of materials.  The extreme anisotropy of           the cuprate superconductors necessitates the development of texture             microstructures in polycrystalline aggregates.  Therefore, the                  project will investigate cryogenic colloidal processing techniques to           obtain preferential crystallographic orientation of grains as the               ceramic greenbody is formed.  This might be accomplished in the                 project by dispersing particles of the superconductor in liquid                 nitrogen and filtercasting in the presence of a magnetic field. The             investigators will evaluate electrical characteristics of controlled            microstructure samples with respect to transition temperature, and              critical current densities while under strain.  The investigators               will construct equipment to measure the critical current density as a           function of strain in a magnetic field.
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