Thermal treatments for biaxially textured Cu-Ni alloys for YBCO coated conductors

Author

Soubeyroux, J.L. ; Bruzek, C.E. ; Girard, A. ; Jorda, J.L.

Author_Institution

Lab. de Cristallogr./CRETA, Grenoble, France

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

2005

fDate

6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2687

Lastpage

2690

Abstract

We have studied the thermal treatments necessary to texture Cu-Ni alloys in view of applications as substrate for the YBCO coated conductors. Several alloy compositions chosen in order to avoid magnetism of the tapes have been elaborated by the rolling (RABiTS) method. Analyzes of the texture as a function of annealing temperature have been done by X-ray and neutron diffractions, pole figures by EBSD and X-rays. The results show that the annealing temperature is dependant of the alloy composition and must be determined precisely for each composition. Good biaxial textures have been obtained on these cheap alloys.

Keywords

X-ray diffraction; annealing; barium compounds; copper alloys; high-temperature superconductors; neutron diffraction; nickel alloys; rolling; substrates; superconducting tapes; texture; yttrium compounds; Cu-Ni alloy; CuNi; EBSD; RABiTS method; X-ray diffraction; YBCO coated conductor; YBa₂Cu₃O₇; alloy composition; annealing temperature; biaxial texture; neutron diffraction; pole figure; tape magnetism; texture analysis; thermal treatment; Annealing; Conducting materials; Conductors; Copper alloys; Neutrons; Nickel alloys; Temperature; Thermal conductivity; X-ray diffraction; Yttrium barium copper oxide; Cu-Ni substrate; YBCO coated conductor; superconducting tapes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2005.847783

Filename

1440221