Rafael Dinner's papers and supplemental material from Stanford PhD work

Please note that as of 1/08 I will not be updating this page; see http://alum.mit.edu/www/rdinner/research for more recent work.

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Rafael B. Dinner, Kathryn A. Moler, D. Matthew Feldmann, and M. R. Beasley, "Enhanced current flow through meandering grain boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7-δ films." Applied Physics Letters 90 212501 (2007). 3 pages, 2 figures. PDF, 0.5MB
  • AMSC.avi is the movie accompanying Figure 2, showing images of a YBCO coated conductor grown by MOD on RABiTS.
zipped AVI, 5MB
  • GB0.avi, GB30.avi, and GB60.avi are movies accompanying Figure 3, showing images of single grain boundaries in YBCO films.
zipped AVIs, 14MB

Rafael B. Dinner, Kathryn A. Moler, D. Matthew Feldmann, and M. R. Beasley, "Imaging ac losses in superconducting films via scanning Hall probe microscopy." Physical Review B 75 144503 (2007). 12 pages, 8 figures. PDF, 1MB
Supplemental material: Two videos presenting the properties of a superconducting film as they evolve with time over a half cycle of applied 400 Hz current.
  • BJE.avi shows the vertical component of magnetic induction, Bz, the components of current density, Jx and Jy, and the components of inductive electric field, Eix and Eiy.
zipped AVI, 8MB
  • EP.avi shows the electrostatic portion of electric field, Ep, the total electric field, E, and the power input to the film, P.
zipped AVI, 4MB

Rafael B. Dinner, M. R. Beasley, and Kathryn A. Moler, "Cryogenic scanning Hall-probe microscope with centimeter scan range and submicron resolution." Review of Scientific Instruments 76 103702 (2005). 11 pages, 7 figures. PDF, 1MB
Supplemental material: A video of current, voltage, and the vertical component of magnetic induction, Bz, in a strip of YBCO that crosses a grain boundary, as described in Section IV of the article. Time evolution over a full cycle of applied 400 Hz current is shown.
zipped AVI, 3MB

PhD thesis/dissertation, Stanford University, December 2006. Hyperlinked version with margins for 2-sided printing. PDF, 24MB


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