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    STUDY OF THE SINTERING BEHAVIOUR OF MgB2 SUPERCONDUCTOR DURING HOT-PRESSING

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    The densification behaviour of MgB2 was studied when commercial powder was hot-pressed in the temperature range 1070–1190 C. The mechanisms active during sintering were investigated by continuously recording the shrinkage vs. time and elaborating the data on the basis of Kingery’s model for liquid phase sintering. XRD and SEM analysis on final dense bodies were used to evaluate secondary phases formation during sintering and the effect of magnesium sublimation. AC magnetic susceptibility measurements were also performed to correlate the microstructural and morphological modifications induced by hot-pressing and the superconducting properties

    Temperature dependence of lattice dynamics in lead

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    Inelastic neutron scattering measurements on lead have been performed at six temperatures from 4.2 K up to 245 K using the PRISMA spectrometer installed at the ISIS spallation neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. With the present experiment we wish to emphasize the importance of measuring the phonon response function over a wide energy range especially when studying temperature-related phenomena
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