Patent · US Expired

Production of oxide superconductors having large magnetic levitation force

US5474976A · kind A · utility

15Cited by
4References
18Claims
0Family size

Assignees

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateMar 29, 1993
Grant dateDec 12, 1995
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 29, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH10N60/857
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A method for producing an REBaCuO oxide superconductor having large magnetic levitation force, where RE is a rare earth element selected from the group consisting of Y, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, and Yb, involves the steps of using a raw material mixture as the starting feed, heating the raw material mixture for partial melting, followed by cooling and solidification, pulverizing and mixing the resulting solid, shaping the resulting mixture into a given shape, placing or embedding nucleates on or in the resulting shape, followed by heating for partial melting, and cooling the resulting partial melt to a substantial temperature at which a superconducting phase starts to form, followed by slow cooling, whereby the superconducting phase is preferentially formed and grown from a nucleation site.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.