Click here to subscribe to Advanced Ceramics Report and immediately access all its archives
Click here to review the contents of the May 2006 issue of Advanced Ceramics Report and download it online
Issue: May 2006, page: 8
Oxygen in grain boundaries key to critical current density
US researchers have carried out work to determine whether grain boundaries in certain high-temperature superconductors (HTSs) are oxygen deficient. Oxygen deficiency impairs superconductor performance.