Process for producing a high-temperature superconductor

US5162300A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Bock · Lechenich, DE
• Eberhard Preisler · Lechenich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 28, 1991
• Grant date: Nov 10, 1992
• Expiry date: Mar 28, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S505/782
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

To produce a high-temperature superconductor of the composition Bi.sub.(2+a) (Sr.sub.(1-b) Ca.sub.b).sub.(3-a) Cu.sub.(2+c) O.sub.(8+x), where a is from 0 to 0.3, b is from 0.1 to 0.9 and c is from 0 to 2, and x has a value which depends on the oxidation state of the metals contained, oxides and/or carbonates of bismuth, strontium, calcium and copper are thoroughly mixed. In this process, the copper compound is used as a mixture of copper(I) oxide and copper(II) oxide. Then the mixture of oxides and/or carbonates is first allowed to react mutually in an inert gas atmosphere at temperatures from 700.degree. to 800.degree. C. for 0.5 to 36 hours before subsequently treating the mixture in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at temperatures from 700.degree. to 875.degree. C. for 3 to 60 hours.