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HIGH-PERFORMANCE YBCO-COATED SUPERCONDUCTOR WIRES

High-Performance YBCO-Coated Superconductor Wires, 533
M.P. Paranthaman and T. Izumi, Guest Editors
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Biaxially Textured IBAD-MgO Templates for YBCO-Coated Conductors, 543
P.N. Arendt and S.R. Foltyn
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The RABiTS Approach: Using Rolling-Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrates for High-Performance YBCO Superconductors, 552
A. Goyal, M.P. Paranthaman, and U. Schoop
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Research and Development of Biaxially Textured IBAD-GZO Templates for Coated Superconductors, 564
Y. Iijima, K. Kakimoto, Y. Yamada, T. Izumi, T. Saitoh, and Y. Shiohara
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Metalorganic Deposition of YBCO Films for Second-Generation High-Temperature Superconductor Wires, 572
M.W. Rupich, D.T. Verebelyi, W. Zhang, T. Kodenkandath, and X. Li
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MOCVD-Based YBCO-Coated Conductors, 579
V. Selvamanickam, Y. Xie, J. Reeves, and Y. Chen
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YBCO-Coated Conductors Manufactured by High-Rate Pulsed Laser Deposition, 583
A. Usoskin and H.C. Freyhardt
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MRS Volunteers Explain "Strange Matter", 590

Abstracts for September 2004 Journal of Materials Research, 595

Letter from the President, 524
A Rush to Achievement
H.E. Katz

Research/Researchers, 525

Science Policy,530

Image Gallery, 532

Advertisers in This Issue, 541

Library, 593
Envisioning Science: The Design and Craft of the Science Image, F. Frankel, reviewed by L. Levine

Classified, 598

Volume 29, No. 8
August 2004
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ON THE COVER: High-Performance YBCO-Coated Superconductor Wires. Power transmission lines (background) may one day disappear from the skyline, thanks to progress in high-temperature superconductor wires and tapes fabricated using advanced techniques such as ion-beam-assisted deposition (IBAD) and rolling-assisted biaxially textured substrates (RABiTS). (left) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) cross-sectional views of (top) a 1.9-µm-thick YBCO film deposited by conventional pulsed laser
deposition (PLD) and (bottom) a 3.1-µm-thick YBCO film deposited by high-rate PLD, showing improved homogeneity in the film microstructure. (upper right) Photograph of a coil (37 mm outside diameter) wound from a superconducting wire manufactured with the trifluoroacetate process on a RABiTS template. (lower right) Photograph of
100-m-long YBCO-coated conducting tape formed by IBAD and PLD. See the technical theme that begins on p. 533.