Effect of Mg Addition on Superconducting Properties of Ba-Y-Cu-O Ceramics Prepared by the Melt Quenching Method

Abstract
We examined the effect of Mg addition on superconducting properties of Ba2YCu3O x ceramics prepared by the melt quenching method in order to clarify why it is very difficult to prepare superconducting Ba-Y-Cu-O thin films with a T c around 90 K on MgO substrates at processing temperatures around 900°C. We found that a very small amount of the Mg element could be introduced into Ba2YCu3O x crystals so that the values of the T c(zero) would be consequently depressed to 70–75 K.
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