Vortices in high-performance high-temperature superconductors

WK Kwok, U Welp, A Glatz, AE Koshelev… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The behavior of vortex matter in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) controls the entire
electromagnetic response of the material, including its current carrying capacity. Here, we …

Growth, nanostructure and vortex pinning in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 thin films based on trifluoroacetate solutions

X Obradors, T Puig, S Ricart, M Coll… - Superconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) is a very competitive technique to obtain epitaxial films
and multilayers of high quality with controlled nanostructures. Based on the strong …

Ultra-fast growth of cuprate superconducting films: Dual-phase liquid assisted epitaxy and strong flux pinning

Y Wu, Y Zhao, X Han, G Jiang, J Shi, P Liu… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cuprate superconductors are key candidate materials toward high energy-efficient devices.
Improving their growth rate and performance under magnetic fields are indispensable for …

Strongly enhanced current densities in superconducting coated conductors of YBa2Cu3O7–x + BaZrO3

JL MacManus-Driscoll, SR Foltyn, QX Jia, H Wang… - Nature materials, 2004 - nature.com
There are numerous potential applications for superconducting tapes based on YBa2Cu3O7–
x (YBCO) films coated onto metallic substrates. A long-established goal of more than 15 …

Synergetic combination of different types of defect to optimize pinning landscape using BaZrO3-doped YBa2Cu3O7

B Maiorov, SA Baily, H Zhou, O Ugurlu, JA Kennison… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
Retaining a dissipation-free state while carrying large electrical currents is a challenge that
needs to be solved to enable commercial applications of high-temperature …

Strong isotropic flux pinning in solution-derived YBa2Cu3O7−x nanocomposite superconductor films

J Gutiérrez, A Llordes, J Gazquez, M Gibert, N Roma… - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
Power applications of superconductors will be tremendously boosted if an effective method
for magnetic flux immobilization is discovered. Here, we report the most efficient vortex …

Progress in fabrication of second generation high temperature superconducting tape at Shanghai Superconductor Technology

Y Zhao, JM Zhu, GY Jiang, CS Chen… - Superconductor …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The development and application of second generation high temperature superconducting
(2G-HTS) tapes have attracted much attention in China recently. Progress in upscaling high …

Impact of high growth rates on the microstructure and vortex pinning of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors

T Puig, J Gutierrez, X Obradors - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract High-temperature superconducting REBa2Cu3O7 (RE= rare earth or yttrium)
coated conductors have emerged as a new class of materials with exceptional physical …

Progress towards all-chemical superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-coated conductors

X Obradors, T Puig, A Pomar… - Superconductor …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) has recently emerged as a very competitive technique
for obtaining epitaxial films of high quality with controlled nanostructure. In particular, the all …

Materials design for artificial pinning centres in superconductor PLD coated conductors

JPF Feighan, A Kursumovic… - Superconductor …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
To date the strategy for inducing pinning in REBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (REBCO where RE= rare-
earth) coated conductors has largely been empirical. Hence, we are not yet at a point where …