Optically active uniform potassium and lithium rare earth fluoride nanocrystals derived from metal trifluroacetate precursors
作者:Ya-Ping Du、Ya-Wen Zhang、Ling-Dong Sun、Chun-Hua Yan
DOI:10.1039/b909145a
日期:——
reaction temperature and time on the crystal phase purity, shape, and size of the as-prepared nanocrystals have been investigated in detail. The formation of monodisperse nanocrystals is found to strongly depend upon the nature of both alkalimetals from Li to K, and the rare earth series from La to Lu and Y. Based on the series of experimental results, a controlled-growth mechanism has also been proposed
We prepared REBa2Cu3Oy (REBCO) coated conductors (CCs) with high I-c values from the Ba-poor (Ba/Y < 2) solution compared with conventional CCs with the Y:Ba:Cu = 1:2:3 stoichiometric composition, In this study, we fabricated Y1-xSmxBa1.5Cu3Oy (YSmBCO) CCs under different experimental conditions of the maximum heating temperature and the oxygen partial pressure, in order to investigate the influence of fabrication conditions on microstructures and superconducting properties of the films for high I-c under magnetic fields. The YSmBCO film fabricated from the optimized condition showed high I-c especially at the high magnetic fields compared with the Sm-free YBCO films. The magnitude of the pinning force (F-p) of the optimized YSmBCO film increased under the high magnetic fields and the maximum F-p (F-p.max) value shifted to higher fields compared with those of Sm-free YBCO films. These results suggest that pinning centers were successfully introduced by the optimized fabrication conditions and the chemical substitution of Sm into the Y site enhanced F-p under the high magnetic fields in the YSmBCO coated conductors. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Effect of fabrication conditions on crystalline of SmBCO films fabricated by TFA-MOD method
Metal organic deposition using trifluoroacetates is expected as a method for YBCO coated conductors since this method can provide high Superconducting properties and is a cost-effective process with non-vacuum system. Recently, REBCO coated conductors, which has high critical properties. have attracted considerable attention. However. there are some problems to optimize fabrication conditions of REBCO films with this method. In this study, we fabricated SmBCO films by TFA-MOD method and investigated the effect of fabrication conditions on crystalline. We focused especially on a starting temperature (T-1) of inlet moisture in calcination step and 02 gas concentration in crystallization step. Flat surfaces were obtained for the calcined films at both T-1 = 300 degrees C and 350 degrees C compared with that at 200 degrees C. One possible reason for this worse morphology at T-1 = 200 degrees C might be a length of a reaction time between moisture and coated film. When moisture is supplied from low temperature for long time, water could react easily to the fluoride which is contained a lot in the coated film; as a result, more HF gas is generated from the film. The crystalline was also improved for the SmBCO films calcined at over T-1 = 300 degrees C, Furthermore, the film calcined at T-1 = 350 degrees C was crystallized under the condition that O-2 gas concentration was varied between 0.2 ppm and 1000 ppm. The degree of c-axis orientation depends on oxygen partial pressure and the highest c-axis oriented SmBCO film was obtained in the case of 10 ppm. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.