Comparative study of sintered and melt-grown recrystallized YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub x/

This paper compares the properties of yttrium barium cuprate bulk specimens prepared by means of solid-state sintering on one hand and of growth from a largely molten state on the other. The current paper focuses on magnetization measurements at 77 K which show specimens made by the latter method to have high remanence magnetization values.