NIST Releases High-Temperature Superconductor Database for Researchers
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new database containing comprehensive information on high-temperature superconductors. The Standard Reference Database 62 provides researchers with rapid access to carefully evaluated data on 24 thermal, mechanical, and superconducting properties for over 130 series of oxide superconductor compounds.
The database covers a wide range of superconducting materials, including yttrium-barium-copper-oxygen (Y-Ba-Cu-O), bismuth-strontium-calcium-copper-oxygen (Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O), thallium-strontium-calcium-copper-oxygen (Ti-Sr-Ca-Cu-O), and lanthanum-copper-oxygen (La-Cu-O) compounds. It includes information on chemical compositions, processing details, density, crystal structure, measurement methods, procedures, and conditions, with all measured values evaluated and supported by full documentation of the source data from approximately 400 papers published between 1987 and 1993.
The database is available for $265 and requires MS-DOS 5.0 or higher, 80386, 80486, or Pentium processors, 7.5MB disk space, 4MB RAM, and Windows 3.1 or higher operating system. Researchers can order the database by contacting the Standard Reference Data Program at the NIST office in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Keywords: superconducting properties, oxide superconductors, NIST database
