Investigation of structural, superconducting and mechanical properties of Co/Cu substituted YBCO-358 ceramic composites

In this study, we have examined the structural, superconducting and mechanical properties of Y3Ba5Cu8−xCoxO18 − δ system (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2 and 0.5), which is produced by conventional solid-state reaction method. Produced samples have been examined using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), Vicker’s hardness (Hv) and electrical resistance measurement (R–T). According...