My thesis is part of an ongoing effort to establish the growing techniques and produce high quality HTS films. The major effort of my work was to find methods to evaluate the materials without having to destroy them (for example - make a bridge pattern to measure critical current density). In particular two measurement setups have been developed:

  1. An inductive method to measure critical current density.
  2. A dielectric cavity resonator to measure surface resistance.

A review of these experiments will be given in the seminar.