Thermogravimetric analysis - a powerful tool for the refinement of the synthesis process of Hg-based superconductors
S Tautkus1, R Kazlauskas, A Kareiva
1Department of Analytical Chemistry, Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Vilnius University, Naugarduko 24, LT-2006 Vilnius, Lithuania.
Abstract:
The paper presents the results of studies on thermogravimetric (TG) characterization of precursors and Hg-based superconductors synthesized by the sol-gel method. TG experiments were performed in an oxygen flow in order to understand the decomposition mechanisms of the fabricated gels and to determine the synthesis temperature of the intermediate precursors for the HgBa(2)CaCu(2)O(6+delta), HgBa(2)Ca(2)Cu(3)O(8+delta), and Hg(1-x)Tl(x)Ba(2)Ca(2)Cu(3)O(8+delta) superconductors. The optimum annealing temperature for a desired oxygen content in the superconducting compounds has been established by thermogravimetric measurements. To assist the interpretation of the obtained results the elemental analyses of the synthesized products were performed by AAS and EDS (SEM) methods.
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