TY - JOUR AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh AU - D Hwang AU - T.S Ravi AU - A Inam AU - J.B Barner AU - L Nazar AU - S.W Chan AU - C.Y Chen AU - B Dutta AU - T Venkatesan AU - X.D Wu AB - The epitaxy of a thin-film Y-Ba-Cu-O (YBCO) superconductor deposited on a single-crystal [001] MgO substrate was examined by transmission electron microscopy. The large lattice mismatch (8-10%) in the basal plane of YBCO and MgO is accommodated mainly by the formation of a polycrystalline, mosaic structure. The grain boundaries correspond to unique crystallographic interfaces, determined by the crystal symmetry of the substrate and the thin film. BT - Applied Physics Letters DO - 10.1063/1.102932 LA - eng M1 - 22 N1 - cited By 92 N2 - The epitaxy of a thin-film Y-Ba-Cu-O (YBCO) superconductor deposited on a single-crystal [001] MgO substrate was examined by transmission electron microscopy. The large lattice mismatch (8-10%) in the basal plane of YBCO and MgO is accommodated mainly by the formation of a polycrystalline, mosaic structure. The grain boundaries correspond to unique crystallographic interfaces, determined by the crystal symmetry of the substrate and the thin film. PY - 1990 SP - 2243 EP - 2245 T2 - Applied Physics Letters TI - Epitaxy of Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films grown on single-crystal MgO VL - 56 SN - 00036951 ER -