The influence of a grain boundary on the thermal transport properties of bulk, melt-processed Y-Ba-Cu-O

[en] We report the dependence of thermal conductivity, thermoelectric power and electrical resistivity on temperature for a bulk, large grain melt-processed Y-Ba-Cu-O (YBCO) high temperature superconductor (HTS) containing two grains separated by a well-defined grain boundary. Transport measurements at temperatures between 10 and 300 K were carried out both within one single grain (intra-granular properties) and across the grain boundary (inter-granular properties). The influence of an applied external magnetic field of up to 8 T on the measured sample properties was also investigated. The presence of the grain boundary is found to affect strongly the electrical resistivity of the melt-processed bulk sample, but has almost no effect on its thermoelectric power and thermal conductivity, within experimental error. The results of this study provide direct evidence that the heat flow in multi-granular melt-processed YBCO bulk samples should be virtually unaffected by the presence of grain boundaries in the material. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd.

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SUPRATECS - Services Universitaires pour la Recherche et les Applications Technologiques de Matériaux Électro-Céramiques, Composites, Supraconducteurs - ULiège

Disciplines :

Materials science & engineering
Electrical & electronics engineering
Physics

Author, co-author :

Marchal, C.; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Capteurs et systèmes de mesures électriques

Fagnard, Jean-François ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Capteurs et systèmes de mesures électriques

Shi, Y. H.; University of Cambridge

Cardwell, D. A.; University of Cambridge

Mucha, J.; W Trzebiatowski Institute for Low Temperature and Structure Research, > Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

Misiorek, H.; W Trzebiatowski Institute for Low Temperature and Structure Research, > Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

Cloots, Rudi ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

Vertruyen, Bénédicte ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie inorganique structurale

Vanderbemden, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Capteurs et systèmes de mesures électriques

Language :

English

Title :

The influence of a grain boundary on the thermal transport properties of bulk, melt-processed Y-Ba-Cu-O

Publication date :

2013

Journal title :

Superconductor Science and Technology

ISSN :

0953-2048

eISSN :

1361-6668

Publisher :

Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, United Kingdom

Volume :

Pages :

015006

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http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-2048/26/1/015006

Funders :

FWB - Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles [BE]
ERM - Ecole Royale Militaire [BE]
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]

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