Abstract Bulk EuBa 2 Cu 3 O x high- T c superconductor thick film specimens of 350 μ thickness were fabricated using a combination of magnetic field and mechanical force (acting normal to each other) to form a “granular single crystal” to reduce the grain boundary weak links due to large-angle grain orientation mismatch. The biaxially aligned (and hence, triaxially aligned) specimens exhibited textures in which the grains of the superconductor ceramics were aligned by a mechanical force such that their [001] axes were perpendicular to the surfaces of the thick film specimens, whereas their [010] axes were oriented by a magnetic force to lie parallel to the magnetic field direction in the specimen plane. The top and bottom surfaces of the double aligned thick films have been characterized by reflection XRD (2θ-scan and χ-circle scan) and XRD pole figure determination. We describe here the biaxial alignment process for EuBa 2 Cu 3 O c , as currently practiced by this group and report the first semiquantitative results of an X-ray pole figure analysis of material prepared by this method.
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