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Buchanan, Relva C. Davison, William Watson 2011-05-07T12:02:45Z 2011-05-07T12:02:45Z 10000-01-01 1990 The processing and phase stability of Ba$\sb2$YCu$\sb3$O$\sb{\rm 7-x}$ High T$\sb{\rm c}$ thin films are seen to be critical aspects of the successful fabrication of this material. Metal neodecanoates of barium, yttrium, and copper were synthesized and mixed into a homogeneous, precipitate-free solution, which was spin-cast onto ZrO$\sb2$ coated silicon wafers. A minimum heat treated temperature of 725$\sp\circ$C in N$\sb2$ was needed to decompose the BaCO$\sb3$ present in the films. A phase map of the stability of Ba$\sb2$YCu$\sb3$O$\sb{\rm 7-x}$ as a function of heat treatment temperature and ambient showed both the upper and lower temperature boundaries to increase with decreasing P$\sb{\rm O2}$, with the higher temperature boundary truncated at temperatures $>$800$\sp\circ$C from interdiffusion of the films with the substrate. The high temperature decomposition mechanism for the high P$\sb{\rm O2}$ condition was seen to be nucleation of BaCuO$\sb2$, followed by formation of BaY$\sb2$CuO$\sb5$, the accelerated formation of which was attributed to the small grain size ($$90 K was accounted for by the presence of the weak links in the film microstructure. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:02:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9021668.pdf: 4849041 bytes, checksum: a8e869fac4f78cd4e5fb41372400e159 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1990 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:35:54Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:14:20-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9021668 (UMI)AAI9021668 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19284 eng Copyright 1990 Davison, William Watson Engineering, Materials Science Processing and phase stability of metal carboxylate-derived barium-yttrium-copper oxide thin films text Dissertation Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering Ceramic Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign