Numéro
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 51, Numéro C1, Janvier 1990
Proceeding of the International Congress
Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries in materials
Page(s) C1-935 - C1-943
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:19901147
J. Phys. Colloques 51, C1-935-C1-943 (1990)
DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:19901147

BOUNDARIES IN ELECTRONIC AND SUPERCONDUCTING CERAMICS

D.R. CLARKE

IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, U.S.A.


Abstract
The electrical properties of individual grain boundaries in a number of commercially important electronic ceramics and in superconducting yttrium barium cuprate are reviewed. In addition, a technique of wide applicability for the preparation of bicrystal thin films by the templating of a grain boundary from a bicrystal substrate is introduced. Finally some of the notions pertinent to the description of grain boundaries in terms of crystal chemistry are discussed.