RELIABILITY OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR METAL CONTACTS

Authors
AGARWAL A GUPTA RP KHOKLE WS
Citation
A. Agarwal et al., RELIABILITY OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR METAL CONTACTS, Microelectronics and reliability, 34(7), 1994, pp. 1273-1278
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Microelectronics and reliability → ACNP
ISSN journal
00262714
Volume
34
Issue
7
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1273 - 1278
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-2714(1994)34:7<1273:ROHSMC>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A thermodynamic criterion has been applied to determine the reliabilit y of contact metals such as silver, aluminium, gold, chromium, and tit anium on bismuth and yttrium based high temperature superconductors (H TSC). The chemical stability is presumed for positive heat of reaction s, i.e., DELTAH(reaction) > 0, when a metal reacts with all the possib le oxides present in the superconducting material. Based on these calc ulations, metals for reliable contacts to HTSCs are proposed.