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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce MgB2 -based superconductor which is simple to manufacture and excellent in the mass productivity and showing an excellent superconductivity (a high critical current density and the like), retaining the property of the high critical temperature of MgB2 . SOLUTION: The MgB2 -based superconductor in which Ti and/or Ti compound scatteredly exist in the polycrystalline substance of MgB2 is manufactured by pressure-forming the mixture of Mg, B and Ti as shown in Fig. 1 and then firing the pressure-formed mixture in the atmospheric pressure and the like (preferably at the temperature not less than 600 deg.C). It is preferred to give the composition of MgB2 -based superconductor in the range of 0.7
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Bi-based oxide superconductor having Bi 2212 structure whose superconductive property at 20 K is more excellent than the conventional one. SOLUTION: The subject conductor has Bi 2212 structure and its composition formula is Bi2-x Sr2 Ca1 Cu2+x O8+y . (however, 0.1
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve critical current density in a magnetic field by the introduction of low inclination grain boundaries into a superconducting oxide film by forming a biaxially oriented superconducting oxide film on a metallic silver substrate having a 100} texture. SOLUTION: An oxide intermediate layer biaxially oriented in a substrate plane, a parallel plane of a substrate is proper in 100}, and magnesium oxide MgO is used as a material. When a lattice miss fit of oxide and superconducting oxide of this intermediate layer is high like 6 to 11%. The superconducting oxide growing on the oxide of the intermediate layer performs pseudo epitaxial growth having fluctuation in in-plane orientation. Due to this fluctuation, low inclination grain boundaries less than one degree of an inclination of a degree of not interrupting a path of a superconducting current, are generated in large numbers in a C axis oriented superconducting oxide film manufactured on the oxide of the intermediate layer. Since these low inclination grain boundaries operate as pin fastening points to trap a magnetic field, high critical current density in the magnetic field can be realized.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a 123 superconductor of rare-earth series which is simple to manufacture and ensures a high irreversible magnetic field. SOLUTION: In the 123 superconductor of rare-earth series which gives the substance represented by the chemical formula of REBa2 Cu3 O7-d (wherein RE is a rare-earth element) as the main element, substituting a portion of RE with Ca ensures the performance that the irreversible magnetic field at the temperature of 77 K is not less than 10 T when applying the magnetic field in the direction of axis C. La, Nd, Sm, Gd or Eu is preferred as RE and in the chemical composition it is preferred that the values of (x) and (y) in RE1-x+y Cax Ba2-y Cu3 O7-d meet the requirements of 0
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high temperature Josephson junction element exhibiting critical current-magnetic field characteristics different from the Fraunhofer pattern of Josephson junction in the s-s wave junction of a metal based superconductor. SOLUTION: The high temperature Josephson junction element employs a bicrystal oxide superconductor where two grains forming the junction interface of a bicrystal oxide superconducting film 6 formed on a bicrystal substrate 3 are c-axis oriented grains and the boundary interfaces of these two grains are 110} face and 100} face or 010} face. Superconducting critical current exhibits a minimal value of substantially 0 under 0 magnetic field and repeats maximal and minimal values periodically as the absolute value of magnetic field increases.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an MgB2 superconductor easy to produce and mass- producible as long articles, and to provide a method for producing the superconductor. SOLUTION: The MgB2 superconductor consists of a shell made of a tubular metal such as copper and a core material of the reaction product of Mg and B formed by sealing Mg and B in the shell and heating these. In the method for producing the superconductor, Mg and B are sealed in the tubular metal, the tubular metal in which Mg and B have been sealed is optionally worked in a wire or belt shape and Mg and B are reacted by heating the tubular metal as shown in figure 1. The tubular metal as the shell may be removed from the material after the reaction to obtain an MgB2 superconductor.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power circuit which includes a superconducting power circuit, capable of obtaining direct current of low voltage and high magnitude with high conversion efficiency. SOLUTION: This superconducting power circuit A comprises a bridge circuit 5 formed by building superconducting switching devices 1-4, having a Josephson junction capable of flexibly performing switching operations between a superconducting status and a registive status by means of an external magnetic field in respective sides of a diamond bridge, a control unit 6 which switches a pair of superconducting switching devices 1, 3, arranged diagonally in the bridge circuit 5 by means of the external magnetic field, into the superconducting status and the other pair of superconducting switching devices 2, 4 into the registive status.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a bicrystal oxide superconductive film free from sinuosity at the joining interface by forming a film having a long straight chain joining interface on a bicrystal substrate by a liquid phase growth method. SOLUTION: The length of the straight chain joining interface is >=1 μm. Starting materials forming an REBaCuO (RE is rate earth elements such as Y, Nd and Sm) type oxide superconductor are put in a furnace 1 and a bicrystal substrate 3 of MgO or the like with a thin film of a seed crystal formed on the surface is disposed just above the starting materials. The starting materials are melted by heating to form a melt 2, the substrate 3 which is slowly pulled up under rotation by a rotating shaft 5 is immersed in the surface of the melt and a crystal is grown on the substrate. The objective superconductive film having a joining interface at the same position as the substrate 3 and having the same joining tilt and (θ) as the substrate is formed on the substrate. An electronic device such as a switching element, a current limiting device or SQUID is obtained by using the superconductive film.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-temperature superconducting Josephson junction which is uniform and excellent in characteristics by a method, wherein a barrier layer uniform in thickness and composition is formed keeping high in reproducibility. SOLUTION: This manufacturing method comprises a first step a first superconducting layer 2 is formed on a substrate 1, a second step where an insulating film 5 is formed on the first conducting layer 2, a third step where the insulating film 5 is etched so as to be provided with a slope, a fourth step where the first superconducting layer 2 is etched so as to be provided with a slope using the etched insulating film 5 as a mask, a fifth step where a barrier layer 3 is formed on the surface of the slope, and a sixth step where a second superconducting layer 4 is formed on the barrier layer 3 and the slope of the insulating layer 5.