The Role of Chemical Substitutions on Bi-2212 Superconductors

We present a study on the correlation of the superconducting critical temperature (Tc) and structural morphology with a chemically substituted high-temperature superconductor (HTS) (Bi,Pb)-2212 via Powder X-ray Diffraction (PXRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX), and dc magnetometry. The elements Zn, Y, Ti, and Nd are incorporated within the bismuth cuprate structure at amounts that extend the ranges currently found in literature.