Melt processing of SmBa2Cu3Oy (Sm-123) is done by infiltrating liquid phases into an Sm-211 preform and allowing the growth of Sm-123 to take place. The melt-textured samples are found to be free of macrodefects, and the microstructure contains uniformly distributed fine-sized Sm-211 particles. The behaviour of the critical current density (Jc) of the samples in high fields is reported here.

Narayanan Harish Kumar

Department Of Physics

Viswanath N.V.N.

Rajasekharan T.

Menon L.

Malik S.K.

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Infiltration-growth processing of superconductor

Superconductor Science and Technology

Infiltration-growth processing of SmBa2Cu3Oy superconductor

Journal	Superconductor Science and Technology
ISSN	09532048
Open Access	No