Abstract
Powder metallurgy has been widely used to make high purity metals and alloys. We applied the powder metallurgy route to the fabrication of the bi-axially textured Ni and Ni-W alloy tapes for YBCO coated conductors. The Ni and Ni-W powder compacts were cold-rolled into tapes. The Ni powder used in this study was 5 μm in size and 99.99% in purity. To densify them, the Ni and Ni-W rods were sintered at 1100°C for 6h in 96% Ar-4% H2 atmosphere, and cold-rolled into thin tapes of 80-100 μm thickness. Heat-treatment condition for the development of cube texture were established for the tapes. The out-of plane and in-plane texture of the Ni and Ni-W tapes were about 8°. In this paper, we discuss the effect of the processing variables on the texture development of the Ni and Ni-W tapes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2583-2586 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 2 III |
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| State | Published - Jun 2003 |
| Event | 2002 Applied Superconductivity Conference - Houston, TX, United States Duration: 4 Aug 2002 → 9 Aug 2002 |
Keywords
- Cube texture
- Ni and Ni-W alloy tapes
- Powder metallurgy
- YBCO coated conductors