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Superconducting Tl-Pb-Ba-Sr-Ca-Cu-O(Ag) thick films (5-20 /spl mu/m) prepared using a commercial spray pyrolysis system and 2-zone furnace annealing
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on. 5(2):1962-1965 Jun, 1995
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Superconducting films
Thick films
Spraying
Furnaces
Annealing
Powders
Plasma temperature
Strontium
Magnetic films
Scanning electron microscopy
Language
ISSN
1051-8223
1558-2515
2378-7074
Abstract
A spray pyrolysis route to superconducting Pb-, Sr-, and Ag-substituted Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O thick films has been developed. First, a precursor powder with the stoichiometry Pb/sub 0.46/Ba/sub 0.40/Sr/sub 1.52/Ca/sub 1.86/Cu/sub 3.00/O/sub x/(Ag/sub /0/sub .37/) (PBSCCO) was synthesized with the particle size of this powder being subsequently reduced to 4-6 /spl mu/m using a ball mill. Next, this powder was mixed with ethyl cellulose binder and sprayed with an airbrush using an N/sub 2/ carrier gas, polycrystalline Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/:ZrO/sub 2/ (YSZ) as single-crystal MgO, SrTiO/sub 3/, NdGaO/sub 3/, and LaAlO/sub 3/ substrates were mounted on a hot plate with typical growth temperatures of 80-100 /spl deg/C. Growth times of /spl sim/10 min provided films which were 5-20 /spl mu/m in thickness. After an intermediate O/sub 2/ anneal to remove the organic binder, these films were subjected to a flowing 2-zone thallination process. Very well c-axis oriented Tl/sub 0.70/Pb/sub 0.36/Ba/sub 0.39/Sr/sub 1.58/Ca/sub 1.98/Cu/sub 3/O/sub x/ (TP-1223) phase material was obtained for films grown on single-crystal LaAlO/sub 3/. Films grown on all other substrates surveyed in the study gave rise to impurity phase formation and/or incomplete reaction. The PBSCCO and TP-1223 films were characterized by /spl theta//2/spl theta/ and /spl omega/-rocking curve X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), variable temperature magnetic measurement, and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICPAES).ETX