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Investigation of Possible Superconductivity in Titanium Borides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Brian S. Ahern ,
Stephen Bachowski  and
Jane Horrigan
Brian S. Ahern
Affiliation:
Rome Air Development Center, Hanscom AFB,MA 01731
Stephen Bachowski
Affiliation:
Rome Air Development Center, Hanscom AFB,MA 01731
Jane Horrigan
Affiliation:
Rome Air Development Center, Hanscom AFB,MA 01731
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Abstract

Interest in the titanium boride system stems from a patent disclosure by Vahldiek in 1982. In that disclosure TiBx(x=1.6) crystals were subjected to pressures of 300,000 psi and found to have vanishingly low resistivities at room temperature. In this study we processed TiBx crystals by a variety of techniques and pressurized the samples up to 350,000 psi. No high temperature superconductivity was observed.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 169: Symposium M – High Temperature Superconductors: Fundamental Properties and Novel Materials Processing , 1989 , 1113
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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